Bug 275518 – x11-misc/glunarclock-0.32.4: Package has poor programming practices which may compile but will almost certainly crash on 64bit architectures.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Morse 2009-06-26 19:02:09 UTC]

emerge's output:

 * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
 *            but will almost certainly crash on 64bit architectures.
 * 
 * Function `gnome_i18n_get_language_list' implicitly converted to pointer at egg-screen-help.c:82
 * 
 *  Please file a bug about this at http://bugs.gentoo.org/
 *  with the maintaining herd of the package.
 * 
 * 
 * ERROR: x11-misc/glunarclock-0.32.4 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *       misc-functions.sh, line 729:  Called install_qa_check
 *       misc-functions.sh, line 421:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   				die "install aborted due to" \
 *  The die message:
 *   install aborted due to poor programming practices shown above
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/glunarclock-0.32.4/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/x11-misc/glunarclock-0.32.4/temp/environment'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -v glunarclock
2. done
Actual Results:  
quits with error

Expected Results:  
glunarclock installed

gentoo linux for amd64. gcc4.3.3

[Comment 1 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2009-06-26 19:06:55 UTC]

Please do not touch the component field if you do not know what it means.

Thanks.

[Comment 2 Bernd Waibel 2009-07-25 07:18:55 UTC]

Got the same problem on AMD. Herd according to metadata.xml is desktop-misc.

Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_7850_Dual-Core_Processor-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:45:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r3
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -Wall -march=amdfam10 -mmmx -mieee-fp -msse3 -msse4a -m3dnow"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -Wall -march=amdfam10 -mmmx -mieee-fp -msse3 -msse4a -m3dnow"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--buildpkg --with-bdep y"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ "
LANG="de_DE"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage/layman/xen /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo exif expat ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran fuse gcrypt gd gdbm gif glade gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gzip hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jadetex java jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea latex lcms libnotify mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mono motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl png ppds pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session skey slp smp source speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis wmf xattr xft xinerama xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci 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="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-07-25 07:24:35 UTC]

+  25 Jul 2009; Samuli Suominen <[e-mail]>
+  glunarclock-0.32.4.ebuild:
+  Keyword -amd64 wrt #275518. Code isn't 64bit safe.