Bug 623994 – dev-build/autoconf-2.63-r1 : fails with FEATURES=test ( 171. Unusual Automake input files (torture.at:1463): FAILED )

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:27 UTC]

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  This is an unstable amd64 chroot image at a tinderbox (==build bot)
  name: 17.0-desktop-gnome_20170627-180303

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gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.3.0 *

Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:
  [1]   python3.4
  [2]   python2.7 (fallback)
  [3]   pypy (fallback)
  [4]   jython2.7 (fallback)
Available Ruby profiles:
  [1]   ruby21 (with Rubygems) *
  [2]   ruby22 (with Rubygems)
java-config:
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
*)	IcedTea JDK 3.4.0 [icedtea-bin-8]
Available Java Virtual Machines:
  [1]   icedtea-bin-8  system-vm

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:30 UTC]

Created attachment 481188 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:34 UTC]

Created attachment 481190 [details]
emerge-history.txt

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:37 UTC]

Created attachment 481192 [details]
environment

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:40 UTC]

Created attachment 481194 [details]
etc.portage.tbz2

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:43 UTC]

Created attachment 481196 [details]
logs.tbz2

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:46 UTC]

Created attachment 481198 [details]
sys-devel:autoconf-2.63-r1:20170706-133600.log

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:49 UTC]

Created attachment 481200 [details]
temp.tbz2

[Comment 8 Toralf Förster 2017-07-06 16:13:53 UTC]

Created attachment 481202 [details]
tests.tbz2

[Comment 9 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2017-07-18 23:21:06 UTC]

Relevant failure extraction:

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal 
aclocal-1.15: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
/usr/share/aclocal/http-fetcher.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_PATH_HFETCHER
/usr/share/aclocal/http-fetcher.m4:13:   run info Automake 'Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/http-fetcher.m4:13:   or see http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required
/usr/share/aclocal-1.15/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.in:2: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal-1.15: error: echo failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63
stdout:
./torture.at:1481: exit code was 63, expected 0
./torture.at:1481: grep 'require.*1\.8' stderr && exit 77
./torture.at:1483: test -f HeeHee.in
./torture.at:1483: exit code was 1, expected 0
171. torture.at:1463: 171. Unusual Automake input files (torture.at:1463): FAILED (torture.at:1483)


./autoscan.at:46: autoscan
--- /dev/null	2017-07-04 19:29:02.220965983 +0200
+++ /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.63-r1/work/autoconf-2.63/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/364/stderr	2017-07-06 15:52:26.463625593 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE [^\}]*}/ at /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.63-r1/work/autoconf-2.63/bin/autoscan line 361.
364. autoscan.at:22: 364. autoscan (autoscan.at:22): FAILED (autoscan.at:46)



The second of these failures is supposedly fixed in -r1 now ( the patch is missing from this builds build log ), that's bug #554748