Bug 267892 – dev-util/mercurial requires glibc > 2.4

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Shevek 2009-04-29 15:52:39 UTC]

Mercurial 1.0 and 1.2.1 both fail with the issue as reported in bug 237028. This is almost an exact duplicate of that bug, since it remains outstanding.

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O2 -march=i686 
-pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c hgext/inotify/lin
ux/_inotify.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/hgext/inotify/linux/_inotify.o
hgext/inotify/linux/_inotify.c:172: error: 'IN_ONLYDIR' undeclared here (not in 
a function)
hgext/inotify/linux/_inotify.c:173: error: 'IN_DONT_FOLLOW' undeclared here (not
 in a function)
hgext/inotify/linux/_inotify.c:174: error: 'IN_MASK_ADD' undeclared here (not in
 a function)

Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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 a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amr amrnb amrwb apache2 auth authdaemond authfile bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cjk cli cpio cpudetection crypt css dga divx4linux dso dts dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr enca encode exif firefox flac font-server fontconfig fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmp gphoto2 graphviz gtk gtk2 gtkhtml ifsession imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 ithreads jabber java jikes jpeg latex lcms ldap libcaca live lmtp lzo mad maildir math matroska mbox md5sum mime mng mp2 mp3 mp4 msn musepack mysql ncurses nls objc objc++ offensive openal openexr openssl opensslcrypt pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php pic plotutils png pnm postgres python quicktime rar readline reiserfs rtc samba sasl sdl server session sharedext sharedmem skins slang slp sndfile snmp soap sockets softquota sox speedo speex spell sql sqlite3 srt ssh ssl subversion svgz t1lib tetex tga theora threads tiff tokenizer tools truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb vhosts vidix vim-syntax vorbis wddx webdav webdav-neon wmf x264 x86 xanim xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 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="access actions alias asis auth auth_basic auth_digest authn_alias authn_anon authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache case_filter case_filter_in cern_meta cgi cgid charset_lite dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache dumpio echo env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap imap include info log_config log_forensic logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status substitute unique_id userdir usertrack version vhost-alias vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="via r128 radeon"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2009-05-01 22:33:04 UTC]

I'm not going to add hard depend on >glibc-2.4 as users may have different libc implementation, also there's newer libc stable for all arches.

[Comment 2 Shevek 2009-05-04 00:29:19 UTC]

Your unwillingness to resolve this bug does not make it invalid. The fact is that as-is, mercurial does not build. At worst, please re-resolve as WONTFIX.

[Comment 3 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2009-05-10 14:00:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Your unwillingness to resolve this bug does not make it invalid.

It's not that I'm unwilling to resolve this issue.

> The fact is
> that as-is, mercurial does not build. At worst, please re-resolve as WONTFIX.

The problem is that mercurial uses features of inotify present in >glibc-2.4, but adding hard dependency on specific version of glibc is not an option, as there's more than one implementation of libc (especially important with the new eglibc thing).