Bug 43246 – OpenSSH 3.8p1 should require linux-headers, doesn't

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michael Hill 2004-02-28 20:40:15 UTC]

I unmerged linux-headers because I'm having problems with it (that's a topic for a different ticket).  When I "emerge -u openssh", it merrily goes about trying to configure & build 3.8p1 .  Since the configure step requires include files in /usr/include/linux , which are installed by the linux-headers package, the openssh ebuild should be set to require that package.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge unmerge linux-headers
2. emerge openssh
3.

Actual Results:  
hostname openssh-3.8p1 # emerge -u openssh
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-3.8_p1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) openssh-3.8p1.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking openssh-3.8p1.tar.gz to /usr/portage/tmp/portage/openssh-3.8_p1/work
 * Applying openssh-3.8_p1-kerberos.patch...                              [ ok ]
 * Applying openssh-3.8_p1-resolv_functions.patch...                      [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking for sparc-sun4m-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking build system type... sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... sparc-sun4m-linux-gnu
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! ERROR: net-misc/openssh-3.8_p1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 100, Exitcode 1
!!! bad configure


Expected Results:  
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 2) sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 to /
   ...
>>> emerge (2 of 2) net-misc/openssh-3.8_p1 to /

emerge info:
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-sparc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0,
2.4.24-sparc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.24-sparc sparc sun4m
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=supersparc -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector"
CHOST="sparc-sun4m-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=supersparc -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache digest sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp/"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X berkdb crypt cups curl ethereal foomaticdb gd gdbm gnome gtk imlib jpeg
libwww mbox mozilla mysql ncurses nocd pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt
readline samba sasl slang sparc spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype xml xml2 zlib"


The relevant failure section from config.log:
configure:2777: /lib/cpp  conftest.c
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:130,
                 from /usr/include/limits.h:144,
                 from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/limits.h:132,
                 from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/syslimits.h:7,
                 from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/limits.h:11,
                 from conftest.c:11:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory
configure:2783: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define WORDS_BIGENDIAN 1 
| /* end confdefs.h.  */  
| #ifdef __STDC__
| # include <limits.h>
| #else          
| # include <assert.h>
| #endif         
|                    Syntax error
configure:2852: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-02-28 22:10:08 UTC]

a _lot_ of packages require linux-headers in this manner ... adding linux-headers to the DEPEND of all of them would be a nightmare

[Comment 2 Michael Hill 2004-02-29 18:31:04 UTC]

Okay, thanks for explaining that.  I wanted to clear that issue up before getting into the next problem I'm having with linux-headers.

[Comment 3 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 09:15:51 UTC]

note also that the virtual "os-headers" (as supplied by linux-headers) is in system profile.  packages resolved and living in the profile for the system need not be in DEPEND, unless there are specific version requirements.

There are ofc. some exceptions, like other programs in the profile.  And, as virtual/ssh is in the profile (provided default by openssh)  this one example -should- have virtual/os-headers listed (or linux-headers)


Reopening for that reason.  

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-03-01 09:23:37 UTC]

whatever floats your boat :p