Bug 310335 – sys-devel/m4-1.4.14: bundled gnulib incorrectly redefines posix spawn values on FreeBSD.

• Product: Gentoo/Alt
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Javier Villavicencio (RETIRED) 2010-03-20 09:25:31 UTC]

And that causes m4's internal macros like "esyscmd" to fail at starting subprocesses, it shows up while trying to emerge subversion with this version of m4.

A patch exists on freebsd ports: 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/m4/files/patch-lib_spawn.in.h

[Comment 1 Javier Villavicencio (RETIRED) 2010-03-20 09:29:47 UTC]

Just for tracking, will drop -fbsd keywords on this version, 1.4.13 works okay.
@base-system: up to you to apply the patch or not.

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2010-03-20 10:03:34 UTC]

Thanks for the heads up, I just masked this version in Prefix' freebsd profile.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2010-03-20 16:46:27 UTC]

anything that is in lib/ isnt specific to m4; it comes from gnulib.  if the change is already in the upstream gnulib code, feel free to commit whatever you need.

[Comment 4 Javier Villavicencio (RETIRED) 2010-03-23 13:53:42 UTC]

Just curious, inheriting eutils to patch stuff here wouldn't mess bootstrapping? (or something else like a circular dep?)

[Comment 5 Fabian Groffen 2010-03-23 13:58:51 UTC]

As far as I'm concerned, usage of epatch early in the process is fine.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2010-03-23 19:58:42 UTC]

`patch` should be available in stage1, so there should never be a bootstrapping issue with using `epatch`.  if there is, that's a bug in the release process.

[Comment 7 Javier Villavicencio (RETIRED) 2010-03-24 04:54:15 UTC]

Created attachment 225067 [details, diff]
Patch to the ebuild.

Already on upstream gnulib:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=88baa1ed437db0f062e49b87cff59002ec8f7ab2

And please check the patch to the ebuild, will commit it later if no objections.

Thanks.

[Comment 8 Javier Villavicencio (RETIRED) 2010-03-28 10:35:10 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.