Bug 523496

Summary:	sys-process/procps-3.3.10 upstream tarball generated incorrectly, requires autotools installed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mikael Magnusson <mikachu>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mikael Magnusson 2014-09-23 05:00:37 UTC

# ls -l *(@)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 32 Sep 22 15:23 compile -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/compile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 37 Sep 22 15:23 config.guess -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/config.guess
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 35 Sep 22 15:23 config.sub -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/config.sub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 32 Sep 22 15:23 depcomp -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/depcomp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 35 Sep 22 15:23 install-sh -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/install-sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 35 Sep 22 15:23 ltmain.sh -> /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1000 wireshark 32 Sep 22 15:23 missing -> /usr/share/automake-1.14/missing


I guess they forgot to say -i to their auto* so it just put symlinks. I noticed this because I don't have 1.14 installed, but obviously half the point of autotools is that the person using the package doesn't need to have it installed at all. Possible resolutions are: running eautoreconf in the ebuild; depending on autotools-1.14; masking and bugging upstream; something else?

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-09-23 05:37:52 UTC

+  23 Sep 2014; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> Manifest:
+  Recreated source tarball without symlinks to auto* tools. Thanks to Mikael
+  Magnusson who reported this issue in bug #523496.
+
Thanks for pointing that out. FYI, the tarball is no official upstream tarball as procps-ng upstream unfortunately does not provide any source tarballs at all.