Bug 424041 – app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5 fails with automake-1.12 - mkdir -p

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description crabbed halo ablution 2012-06-29 10:43:14 UTC]

>>> Install sgml-common-0.6.3-r5 into /var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/image/ category app-text
make -j8 DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/image/ install 
Making install in bin
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/work/sgml-common-0.6.3/bin'
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/work/sgml-common-0.6.3/bin'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
 @MKDIR_P@ '/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/image//usr/bin'
/bin/sh: line 3: @MKDIR_P@: command not found
make[2]: *** [install-binSCRIPTS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/work/sgml-common-0.6.3/bin'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5/work/sgml-common-0.6.3/bin'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
emake failed

[Comment 1 crabbed halo ablution 2012-06-29 10:45:16 UTC]

MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge -1 sgml-common
Finishes without error

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2012-07-03 13:46:58 UTC]

That error doesn't seem to have anything to do with a race condition. Please provide a full log.

[Comment 3 Charles Nérot 2012-07-04 10:28:17 UTC]

Same error for me during an "emerge -e @system" with gcc-4.7.1.
retrying emerging it alone works for me :
emerge -1 sgml-common 
=> OK

[Comment 4 Robert Förster 2012-07-31 13:39:55 UTC]

Created attachment 319862 [details]
build log

[Comment 5 Mike Gilbert 2012-08-30 20:43:08 UTC]

Can someone attach a copy of work/sgml-common-0.6.3/bin/Makefile from a failed install?

Also please provide emerge --info.

[Comment 6 quietlik 2012-09-06 05:23:33 UTC]

Created attachment 323040 [details]
work/sgml-common-0.6.3/bin/Makefile

[Comment 7 quietlik 2012-09-06 05:25:25 UTC]

Created attachment 323042 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 8 Mike Gilbert 2012-09-10 02:12:30 UTC]

This is very strange... the following check is missing from the configure output.

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p

This means that configure doesn't substitute @MKDIR_P@ in Makefile.in.

[Comment 9 Olipro 2012-09-11 12:22:08 UTC]

I am experiencing exactly the same error whilst using gcc 4.7.1

[Comment 10 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-10-10 07:20:34 UTC]

http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/forwardporting/automake.html

has the solution.

[Comment 11 Mike Gilbert 2012-10-13 18:56:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)

I still can't reproduce the problem; no sense in hacking up the build system if I can't isolate the issue.

[Comment 12 Mike Gilbert 2013-05-12 22:09:42 UTC]

I fixed this by repackaging the tarball with newer autotools.