Bug 239813 – mail-filter/mapson-3.0 fails to build (what the ... ?)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Evil Compile Person 2008-10-05 01:20:34 UTC]

checking for getopt_long... yes
checking for u_int32_t... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
checking for /var/spool/mail... no
checking for /var/mail... no
configure: error: Cannot determine the location of the mailboxes on this system.
 *
 * ERROR: mail-filter/mapson-3.0 failed.

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-hardened-r4 x86_64)                                                                      
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System uname: 2.6.25-hardened-r4 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz       
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:15:02 +0000                                 
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33                                                       
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7                                                      
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1                                                     
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2                                                   
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61-r2                                                       
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.1-r1                                                     
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                       
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4                                                     
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26                                                        
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3                                                     
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"                                                              
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                         
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"                                                     
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                          
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"                                                              
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"                                                     
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"                                                   
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"                                                   
FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"                                                                      
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"                 
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"                                                                  
MAKEOPTS="-j4"                                                                     
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gcj gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glkhd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Peter Simons 2009-07-12 13:20:28 UTC]

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce that failure. Maybe the build sandbox is interfering with attempts to access /var/mail or /var/spool/mail? Anyway, specifying "--with-mailboxdir=/var/spool/mail" at ./configure time should remedy the problem.

[Comment 2 Eray Aslan 2011-06-10 08:57:51 UTC]

Is this still a problem with mapson-3.3?