Bug 255662

Summary:	games-engines/kwest: automake called by maintainer-mode
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/06/13/maintaner-mode
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	226305
Attachments:	Build log

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-20 17:56:12 UTC

Hello,

You're receiving this canned (template-based) bug report because I found a problem with a package during my tinderbox run.

The package in question is running automake (and most likely other autotools) during compile phase by maintainer-mode. You can see in my blog post in the URL field why that's a problem, and how to address the issue, but in general, you don't want maintainer-mode rebuild during compile phase, especially since it can cause multiple run of econf.

The causes of maintainer-mode rebuild are various, but most likely it's because of a patch that changes Makefile.am or configure.ac/in and don't rebuild autotools properly. The way to fix this is almost always to inherit autotools eclass and run eautomake/eautoreconf (as needed; eautoconf should only be used when automake is not involved, which is not the case here) during src_unpack phase.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-20 17:58:21 UTC

Created attachment 179097 [details]
Build log

Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-12 16:44:44 UTC

I don't see "maintainer" mentioned in the log.  Seems like it works fine to me.  Reopen with more specific information.

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-12 16:51:03 UTC

maintainer-mode does not say "maintainer", you have to look for calls to "missing --run":

cd . && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/games-engines/kwest-1.1.1/work/kwest/admin/missing --run aclocal-1.9 

(check my blog post in URL for details)

Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-26 14:51:23 UTC

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/games-engines/kwest/?hideattic=0

^ kwest was removed from portage, so closing this bug