Bug 64928 – gftp configure doesn't detect and use -lutil correctly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Stephen Rust 2004-09-21 21:28:58 UTC]

When I try to emerge gftp (for several versions, including the latest 2.0.17), I get the following compile error:

../../lib/libgftp.a(pty.o)(.text+0x2d6): In function `gftp_exec_with_new_pty':
: undefined reference to `openpty'
../../lib/libgftp.a(pty.o)(.text+0x353): In function `gftp_exec_with_new_pty':
: undefined reference to `login_tty'

This happens for several of the directories.

Doing a 'man openpty' I found out this is included in the libutil library (-lutil).

Checking the configure.in in /var/tmp/portage/gftp-2.0.17/work/gftp-2.0.17, I notice that indeed HAVE_OPENPTY is one of the checks that are done, and indeed this should be including -lutil on the EXTRA_LIBS section, especially as the config.h lists HAVE_OPENPTY=1 set in the file.

Yet the -lutil is clearly not in the link line during compilation.  I added the line manually in the LDADD section of the Makefile simply to get it to compile, and that did fix the problem.  But this should be fixed more correctly through the automake/autoconf setup.

Note: configure.in lists above the OPENPTY check that this is needed for FreeBSD.  Apparently this is also needed for linux ;)  (or at least my linux)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge gftp
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
./../lib/libgftp.a(pty.o)(.text+0x2d6): In function `gftp_exec_with_new_pty':
: undefined reference to `openpty'
../../lib/libgftp.a(pty.o)(.text+0x353): In function `gftp_exec_with_new_pty':
: undefined reference to `login_tty'

Expected Results:  
Added -lutil to the EXTRA_LIBS line as part of HAVE_OPENPTY and compiled cleanly.

Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.7-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/
ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd
foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww
mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda
pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype
x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-10-16 04:11:04 UTC]

maybe you could patch it ? This is _not_ a blocker.

[Comment 2 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-04-09 08:29:31 UTC]

does this still happen for you with 2.0.18-r1 ?

[Comment 3 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-05-03 18:42:43 UTC]

closing, no response from reporter.