Bug 347751 – gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.32.1: configure fails with conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2010-12-04 19:34:48 UTC]

I am having problems for bumping gnome-games:
1. pysol card theme looks to need games-board/pysolfc, in that case maybe "artworkextra" USE flag could pull it and build that theme.
2. kde card theme cannot be supplied as there is no carddecks in the tree.
3. configure fails with:

checking for inline... inline
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking which help method to use... ghelp
checking gnome-doc-utils >= 0.10.0... yes
checking for gobject-introspection... no (disabled, use --enable-introspection to enable)
configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.

Any help with this is highly appreciated :-)
Thanks

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2010-12-04 19:36:18 UTC]

Created attachment 256341 [details, diff]
gnome-games.ebuild.diff

ebuild for trying (not yet finalized)

[Comment 2 eivn 2010-12-07 22:11:51 UTC]

1. makes sense to me. depend on pysolfc[extra-cardsets] or maybe just use the PySolFC-Cardsets-2.0.tar.bz2 as only the theme files are neccessary? (have a look at /usr/share/gnome-games-common)
2. not sure if this needs a new package or one in tree already provides the themes. (I'm not a kde user)
3. eautoreconf seems to work for me. btw eutils doesn't seem necessary unless I missed something.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2011-02-24 17:52:52 UTC]

Are:
configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.

errors "exclusive" to Gentoo?

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2011-03-04 16:21:51 UTC]

Per https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635164#c2 looks like this is an automake problem, but not sure if a downstream or upstream one :-/

[Comment 5 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2011-03-04 19:02:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Per https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635164#c2 looks like this is an
> automake problem, but not sure if a downstream or upstream one :-/
> 

This is an upstream problem; afaik, AC_PROG_CXX shouldn't be invoked conditionally this way. I already patched this out for gnome-games in the overlay, but I didn't realize this applied to the tree too.

@base-system what's the proper way of doing the C++ compiler check only if needed?

[Comment 6 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2011-03-04 19:22:16 UTC]

Oops. Accidentally removed base-system.

@base-system please see comment 5 too

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2011-03-04 21:16:14 UTC]

i dont know if you can ... upstream will have to ask on the autoconf lists to see if it is possible

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2011-04-20 13:22:43 UTC]

As talked with Nirbheek, 2.32 won't be added to the tree, people should either use versions in the tree (more stable than 2.32) or overlay