Bug 884289 – dev-util/ostree-2022.7 - configure: error: bison not found but required

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:50 UTC]

checking for clock_gettime... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for struct tm.tm_zone... yes
checking for sys/xattr.h... yes
configure: error: bison not found but required

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  This is an unstable amd64 chroot image at a tinderbox (==build bot)
  name: 17.1_desktop_systemd-j4-20221128-220028

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GNUMAKEFLAGS="$GNUMAKEFLAGS --jobserver-style=pipe"
gcc-config -l:
 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-11
 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-12 *
clang/llvm (if any):
clang version 15.0.6
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/lib/llvm/15/bin
Configuration file: /etc/clang/clang.cfg
/usr/lib/llvm/15
15.0.6
Python 3.10.8
Available Rust versions:
  [1]   rust-bin-1.65.0 *
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)	Eclipse Temurin JDK 11.0.17_p8 [openjdk-bin-11]
*)	Eclipse Temurin JDK 17.0.5_p8 [openjdk-bin-17]
3)	Eclipse Temurin JDK 8.352_p08 [openjdk-bin-8]
Available Java Virtual Machines:
  [1]   openjdk-bin-8 
  [2]   openjdk-bin-11 
  [3]   openjdk-bin-17  system-vm

The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 9.0.2
php cli (if any):

  HEAD of ::gentoo
commit e4521f24efb05b061f1cbc8940e316794605dbaf
Author: Repository mirror & CI <[e-mail]>
Date:   Sun Dec 4 09:53:29 2022 +0000

    2022-12-04 09:53:28 UTC

emerge -qpvO dev-util/ostree
[ebuild  N    ] dev-util/ostree-2022.7  USE="curl gnutls gpg http2 soup ssl systemd zeroconf -archive -doc -dracut -grub -httpd -introspection -libmount (-selinux) -sodium"

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:51 UTC]

Created attachment 839753 [details]
emerge-info.txt

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:52 UTC]

Created attachment 839755 [details]
dev-util:ostree-2022.7:20221204-104116.log

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:54 UTC]

Created attachment 839757 [details]
emerge-history.txt.bz2

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:55 UTC]

Created attachment 839759 [details]
environment

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:56 UTC]

Created attachment 839761 [details]
etc.clang.tar.bz2

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:57 UTC]

Created attachment 839763 [details]
etc.portage.tar.bz2

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:58 UTC]

Created attachment 839765 [details]
logs.tar.bz2

[Comment 8 Toralf Förster 2022-12-04 11:29:59 UTC]

Created attachment 839767 [details]
temp.tar.bz2

[Comment 9 ernsteiswuerfel 2023-01-07 20:21:31 UTC]

Only a problem if byacc is used via app-alternatives/yacc.

Builds fine when bison is used as default.

[Comment 10 Anna Vyalkova 2023-01-18 09:14:39 UTC]

(In reply to ernsteiswuerfel from comment #9)
> Only a problem if byacc is used via app-alternatives/yacc.
> 
> Builds fine when bison is used as default.

To fix this issue, set YACC variable in the ebuild.
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.71/html_node/Particular-Programs.html

[Comment 11 Larry the Git Cow 2023-05-10 00:29:47 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6b9b4ebfc35ab5c718e21a20def3e7bbfcbc52e3

commit 6b9b4ebfc35ab5c718e21a20def3e7bbfcbc52e3
Author:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-05-10 00:24:32 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-05-10 00:29:26 +0000

    dev-util/ostree: unset YACC for bison
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/884289
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <[e-mail]>

 dev-util/ostree/ostree-2022.2.ebuild    | 5 ++++-
 dev-util/ostree/ostree-2022.5-r1.ebuild | 5 ++++-
 dev-util/ostree/ostree-2022.6.ebuild    | 5 ++++-
 dev-util/ostree/ostree-2022.7-r1.ebuild | 3 +++
 dev-util/ostree/ostree-2023.1.ebuild    | 3 +++
 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)