Bug 253522 – sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1: Failed Running aclocal

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description manwe 2009-01-03 09:08:16 UTC]

Package is old, but is still in portage, so should be supported. And this is the last version which works w progressbar patch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1
Actual Results:  
[ebuild     UD] sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 [6.12-r2] USE="nls -acl (-selinux) -static -xattr (-vanilla%)" 0 kB


>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1
 * coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * coreutils-6.9-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                                                      [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                                                                                                     [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2 to /tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1/work
>>> Unpacking coreutils-6.9-patches-1.3.tar.bz2 to /tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1/work
 * Applying gnulib-futimens-rename.patch ...                                                                                                                [ ok ]
 * Applying ACL patches ...
 *   004_all_coreutils-acl-xattr.patch ...                                                                                                                  [ ok ]
 *   006_all_coreutils-acl-control.patch ...                                                                                                                [ ok ]
 * Done with patching
 * Applying various patches (bugfixes/updates) ...
 *   000_all_coreutils-i18n.patch ...                                                                                                                       [ ok ]
 *   003_all_coreutils-gentoo-uname.patch ...                                                                                                               [ ok ]
 *   009_all_coreutils-tests.patch ...                                                                                                                      [ ok ]
 *   030_all_coreutils-more-dir-colors.patch ...                                                                                                            [ ok ]
 *   150_all_coreutils-l10n-updates.patch ...                                                                                                               [ ok ]
 *   200_all_coreutils-ls-x.patch ...                                                                                                                       [ ok ]
 * Done with patching
 * Running eautoreconf in '/tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1/work/coreutils-6.9' ...
 * Running aclocal -I m4 -I m4 ...                                                                                                                          [ !! ]

 * Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
 * 
 *   /tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1/temp/aclocal-15720.out

 * 
 * ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 *             environment, line 2953:  Called eautoreconf
 *             environment, line  970:  Called eaclocal
 *             environment, line  909:  Called autotools_run_tool 'aclocal' '-I' 'm4' '-I' 'm4'
 *             environment, line  441:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           die "Failed Running $1 !";
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed Running aclocal !
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/sys-apps:coreutils-6.9-r1:20090103-090225.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1/temp/environment'.
 * 



# cat /tmp/portage/sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1/temp/aclocal-15720.out
***** aclocal *****
***** aclocal -I m4 -I m4

configure.ac:38: error: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_GNU_SOURCE
m4/extensions.m4:19: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:332: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from...
m4/gnulib-comp.m4:23: gl_EARLY is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: the top level
autom4te-2.63: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1


# emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc20 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-zen1-nyth-v1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-zen1-nyth-v1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9300_@_2.50GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:30:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r8
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.3.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ABI="amd64"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ALSA_CARDS="usb-audio"
ARCH="amd64"
ASFLAGS_x86="--32"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CDEFINE_amd64="__x86_64__"
CDEFINE_x86="__i386__"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona"
CFLAGS_x86="-m32"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CLEAN_DELAY="5"
COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona"
DEFAULT_ABI="amd64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EDITOR="/bin/nano"
ELIBC="glibc"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose --ask --tree --keep-going"
EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10"
INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.19/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/info"
INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard"
KERNEL="linux"
LANG="pl_PL"
LANGUAGE="48"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text"
LC_ALL="pl_PL"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LDFLAGS_x86="-m elf_i386"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2009-01-03 14:33:05 UTC]

reopen if coreutils-6.10-r2.ebuild fails as well

[Comment 2 manwe 2009-01-03 18:22:28 UTC]

Works with 6.10-r1, but different version is not a solution, because progressbar patch doesn't work with >=6.10.