Bug 467706 – app-arch/tar-1.26-r1[test] - QA: Automake "maintainer mode" detected

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Roman Žilka 2013-04-28 09:08:29 UTC]

Emerge of tar-1.26-r1 on x86 says (with FEATURES="test"):

 * QA Notice: Automake "maintainer mode" detected:
 *
 *      /bin/sh /boot/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.26-r1/work/tar-1.26/build-aux/m
+issing --run autom4te --language=autotest -I . testsuite.at -o testsuite.tmp
 *
 * If you patch Makefile.am, configure.in,  or configure.ac then you
 * should use autotools.eclass and eautomake or eautoreconf. Exceptions
 * are limited to system packages for which it is impossible to run
 * autotools during stage building. See
 * http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/autofailure.xml for more information.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Vicente Olivert Riera (RETIRED) 2013-05-04 08:20:54 UTC]

Same problem here. This issue is not present on =app-arch/tar-1.26, so this is a regression. All arches affected.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2013-05-05 22:44:01 UTC]

works fine for me.  you must post a full build log as an attachment and `emerge --info` in every bug report like all the documentation says to.

[Comment 3 Roman Žilka 2013-05-06 07:04:14 UTC]

Created attachment 347490 [details]
emerge --info tar

[Comment 4 Roman Žilka 2013-05-06 07:04:26 UTC]

Created attachment 347492 [details]
build.log

[Comment 5 Roman Žilka 2013-05-06 07:05:39 UTC]

Created attachment 347494 [details]
auto*.out, aclocal.out

[Comment 6 Roman Žilka 2013-05-06 11:48:29 UTC]

The automake output complains about stuff there:

configure.ac:241: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and will soon be removed.
configure.ac:241: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro instead,
configure.ac:241: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your Makefile.am files.
lib/Makefile.am:29: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
rmt/Makefile.am:7: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
src/Makefile.am:48: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
tests/Makefile.am:208: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')

This is not the "maintainer mode" the QA notice talks about, is it? If not, I'll probably open another bug for this - things like that "<something> will soon be removed" should be printed out in an ewarn, I think.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2014-01-05 20:46:05 UTC]

for some reason on your system, autom4te was passed through the missing helper.  for most people, it gets run directly, and that doesn't trigger the portage QA check.

make[2]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.26-r1/work/tar-1.26/tests'
autom4te --language=autotest -I . testsuite.at -o testsuite.tmp
mv testsuite.tmp testsuite
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-arch/tar-1.26-r1/work/tar-1.26/tests'

that said, tar-1.27 already has this issue fixed and is on track for stable in bug 496212.