Bug 65735

Summary:	xfsprogs configure script brokenness
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marc Bevand <bevand_m>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	amd64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=366
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to fix configure.in

Description Marc Bevand 2004-09-28 15:56:34 UTC

The configure script of xfsprogs 2.6.13 is broken (although this is not fatal), example:

  $ ./configure      # (or emerge xfsprogs)
  [...]
  checking for sys/types.h... no
  [...]
  checking size of long... 0
  [...]

Many header files are not detected, size of C types are reported as being 0, etc. Surprisingly these errors are not fatal.

To my knowledge, this problem appeared somewhere between 2.3.9 and 2.6.0. And the fix is simple: just add AC_PROG_CC in configure.in (see the patch I have posted in the next message) and regenerate the configure script (with "autoreconf -i" for example).

This problem should be fixed upstream.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Marc Bevand 2004-09-28 15:57:55 UTC

Created attachment 40666 [details, diff]
Patch to fix configure.in

Patch to fix configure.in.
Then you need to regenerate the configure script via "autoreconf -i" for
example.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-09-29 11:42:46 UTC

i assume this applies to 2.6.13 too ?

Comment 3 Marc Bevand 2004-09-30 01:35:02 UTC

Yes this applies to 2.6.13. Maybe I was not clear enough: versions <=2.3.9 are ok, versions >=2.6.0 are broken.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-07 17:08:08 UTC

when you say 'This problem should be fixed upstream.' you mean it is already fixed or i should e-mail upstream about it ?

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-07 17:24:13 UTC

checked their cvs and this isnt present

reported here: http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=366

added to 2.6.13 ebuild, thanks :)