Bug 44980 – edb 1.0.3, the Enlightenment Database, gives autoconf error on emerge.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description bugs 2004-03-17 14:43:29 UTC]

Output is identical to bug 10989
repeated here from my home system.
# emerge edb
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-db/edb-1.0.3 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) edb-1.0.3.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking edb-1.0.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/edb-1.0.3/work
>>> Source unpacked.
+ aclocal
+ libtoolize --ltdl --force --copy
+ autoheader
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
autoheader-2.58:
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: `acconfig.h':
autoheader-2.58:
autoheader-2.58: WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1,
autoheader-2.58:                [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
autoheader-2.58:
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
autoheader-2.58: WARNING: documentation.
configure.in:21: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HOST invoked multiple times
configure.in:22: warning: AC_ARG_PROGRAM invoked multiple times
+ automake --foreign --add-missing
+ autoconf
configure.in:21: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HOST invoked multiple times
configure.in:22: warning: AC_ARG_PROGRAM invoked multiple times
configure.in:77: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see section `AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS'
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
+ abort autoconf
+ echo 'autoconf not found or command failed. Aborting!'
autoconf not found or command failed. Aborting!
+ exit 1

!!! ERROR: dev-db/edb-1.0.3 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 30, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge edb
2. fails





I'm attempting to back out gtk dependant apps or update to gtk2 only.  My
unmerges of some gtk stuff might be related?  It seems unlikely, since edb does
not have a gtk dependancy.  Although it apparently did at one time according to
bug 6998

[Comment 1 bugs 2004-03-17 16:22:11 UTC]

Gave up on the getting rid of gtk for now, too many things I cared about hadn't been ported over, reemerged.
edb 1.0.3 still failed to emerge. 
Switched to the 1.0.4.20040313 which is working fine.
I suppose I could do a diff between their configure scripts if I cared enough.
Both gave similar autoconf warnings.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-03-18 17:56:50 UTC]

removed the autogen stuff in 1.0.3