Bug 24438 (gettextfail) – gettext 0.12 fails configureing in bootstrap with failing sanity check of /lib/cpp

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Manuel Schneider 2003-07-14 02:53:22 UTC]

When I try scripts/bootstrap.sh on a new system gettext fails configureing with the error 
"/bin/cpp sanity check failed"

I 'solved' the problem by rming /usr/portage/sys-devel/gettext-0.12, so it uses the old ys-devel/gettext-0.11.5-r1 which works fine

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

1.put the stage1-1.4rc4 tarball on a empty system and go into chroot
2.emerge sync and update your make.conf
3.cd /usr/portage, run scripts/bootstrap.sh

Actual Results:  
error message "/bin/cpp sanity check failed"
bootstrapping fails

Expected Results:  
The sanity check in configure of gettext should be fixed or perhaps just the parameters for configure in the gettext-0.12.ebuild

[Comment 1 Dark Ryder 2003-07-16 14:36:26 UTC]

This is also not fixed in sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 -- there is a forum thread at <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67773> that discusses this bug and another workaround.

[Comment 2 Alfredo Matos 2003-07-17 07:57:45 UTC]

Created attachment 14621 [details]
Bug persists in nem gettext version 0.12.1

[Comment 3 Alfredo Matos 2003-07-17 09:12:26 UTC]

It is not "/bin/cpp" but "/lib/cpp". 
It just fails on boostrap, tried it in a gcc 3.2.2 system and worked fine, as well as in a gcc 3.2.3 
system. 
If fails in stage1 1.4_rc4. 
It also requires "~x86" to get the 0.12.1 version of gettext. 
 

[Comment 4 Ingo Rohlfs 2003-07-18 01:20:25 UTC]

Isn`t it better to mask gettext 0.12.x as long as the problem still exists?

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-07-21 14:56:57 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12699 ***