Bug 220040

Summary:	packages with outdated/broken AC_FUNC_MKTIME in configure
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	vorfeed.canal
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	chewi, flameeyes, galtgendo, martin, pacho, pva, solshark, tom.gl
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570208
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	213975, 267619, 271592
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	autoconf-mktime-2.59.patch autoconf-mktime-2.61.patch

Description vorfeed.canal 2008-05-02 13:17:49 UTC

Compilation of bash, gawk (and probably many others) stops for 60 seconds with message checking for working mktime... and resuls is "no".



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
# emerge -e system
...
# grep grep 'mktime.*no' /var/log/portage/*.log
/Gentoo/var/log/portage/app-shells:bash-3.2_p33:20080502-122356.log:checking for working mktime... no
/Gentoo/var/log/portage/sys-apps:gawk-3.1.5-r5:20080502-120142.log:checking for working mktime... no
Actual Results:  
Bundled mktime is used

Expected Results:  
System mktime is used

This is caused by problem in old version of AC_FUNC_MKTIME - autoreconf fixes this problem nicely but it's not enabled for bash and/or gawk

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2008-05-03 08:34:56 UTC

I recently recompiled world with gcc-4.3 (~1100 packages), and from these the
following ones are concerned, i.e. their log contains "working mktime... no"

app-arch/cabextract-1.2
app-editors/emacs-22.1-r4
app-shells/bash-3.2_p33
app-text/a2ps-4.13c-r6
dev-util/cvs-1.12.12-r4
sys-apps/gawk-3.1.5-r5
sys-libs/gwenhywfar-2.6.1

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-05-05 05:48:30 UTC

really should be handled automatically ...

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-05-05 05:49:11 UTC

Created attachment 151883 [details, diff]
autoconf-mktime-2.59.patch

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-05-05 05:53:17 UTC

Created attachment 151885 [details, diff]
autoconf-mktime-2.61.patch

Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-05 12:11:59 UTC

I think solar said he has something of the like, we should probably ask him.. and we might find time next week to coordinate on that? It didn't make SoC so we'll have to handle it ourselves at this point.

Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-06 18:13:47 UTC

*** Bug 220611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Morgan Wesström 2008-10-26 15:39:57 UTC

net-ftp/pure-ftpd-1.0.21-r1

Is this bug the right place to report these packages? Nothing has been commented here for 6 months.

Comment 8 Mik B. Shvets 2009-03-25 09:45:59 UTC

net-fs/curlftpfs-0.9.2
Looks like the same issue.

Comment 9 Mik B. Shvets 2009-03-25 09:46:23 UTC

Hmm. Or not. Sorry, have no idea why but works in 2 min again.

Comment 10 Rafał Mużyło 2009-04-06 10:03:58 UTC

Both dev-libs/pkcs11-helper-1.05 and dev-libs/pkcs11-helper-1.06 are using the broken version.

Comment 11 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2009-08-27 21:44:16 UTC

media-libs/gmyth is affected by this. If the build thinks mktime is broken, wouldn't that cause issues is some cases?

Comment 12 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2009-08-27 22:11:26 UTC

Actually gmyth-0.7.1 (not in Portage) doesn't seem to be affected.

Comment 13 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-12 09:52:23 UTC

Looks like autoconf-2.62 fixed this issue. Could we update eclass to depend to >=autoconf-2.62 so our eautoreconf fixes started to work? Thanks.