Bug 668386 – media-libs/SoXt-1.3.0 : configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --includedir:

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:19:38 UTC]

 * econf: updating SoXt-1.3.0/cfg/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/SoXt-1.3.0/work/SoXt-1.3.0/configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-dependency-tracking --libdir=/usr/lib64 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/SoXt-1.3.0 --enable-shared --disable-static htmldir=/usr/share/doc/SoXt-1.3.0/html --disable-compact --disable-html-help --includedir= --with-coin --with-motif --disable-debug --disable-profile --disable-html --disable-man
configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --includedir: 
 * ERROR: media-libs/SoXt-1.3.0::gentoo failed (configure phase):
 *   econf failed
 * 

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gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-7.3.1
 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-8.2.0 *

Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:
  [1]   python3.7
  [2]   python3.6
  [3]   python2.7 (fallback)
  [4]   pypy (fallback)
Available Ruby profiles:
  [1]   ruby23 (with Rubygems)
  [2]   ruby25 (with Rubygems) *



emerge -qpvO media-libs/SoXt
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/SoXt-1.3.0  USE="-debug -doc -static-libs"

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:19:42 UTC]

Created attachment 550710 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:19:47 UTC]

Created attachment 550712 [details]
emerge-history.txt

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:19:52 UTC]

Created attachment 550714 [details]
environment

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:19:56 UTC]

Created attachment 550716 [details]
etc.portage.tbz2

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:20:00 UTC]

Created attachment 550718 [details]
media-libs:SoXt-1.3.0:20181011-142508.log

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2018-10-11 22:20:05 UTC]

Created attachment 550720 [details]
temp.tbz2

[Comment 7 Jean-Francois Ostiguy 2018-11-26 02:48:56 UTC]

The issue is that the SoXt configure needs the coin-config script and 
and the file   /usr/share/Coin/conf/coin-default.cfg. Both are part of
the coin library. They are correctly installed by coin-3.1.3-r2
but not by coin-4.0.0a_pre2018041.  
coin-4.0.0a_pre2018041 has switched to a cmake based build system  
and it seems that the new scripts do not handle the installation 
of these files properly, even though they still are in the source tree. 
After manually installing both files, emerge SoXt proceeds normally.