Bug 255882 – media-sound/soundkonverter: automake called by maintainer-mode

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-01-22 00:45:30 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) 2009-01-22 00:45:44 UTC]

Created attachment 179258 [details]
Build log

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-05-13 18:46:41 UTC]

Unfortunately it's not entirely maintainer-mode, but the Makefile's call a cvs.sh and others in admin/ directory this package ships, as do many others KDE 3.x pkgs. Just adding eautoreconf won't make this problem go away, the build system would require some rewriting.. :-(

[Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2009-05-13 18:54:39 UTC]

If it's using the kde3 build cr^Wsystem you should just remove the configure file and let kde.eclass handle it.

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-05-14 04:59:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> If it's using the kde3 build cr^Wsystem you should just remove the configure
> file and let kde.eclass handle it.
> 

Thanks, that helped. :-) Still ugly, but doesn't rerun the stuff anymore.