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Bug 561306 - sys-devel/automake: AM_PATH_LISPDIR can trigger hangs in emacs calls during build
Summary: sys-devel/automake: AM_PATH_LISPDIR can trigger hangs in emacs calls during b...
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
URL: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bu...
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Reported: 2015-09-23 21:32 UTC by Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED)
Modified: 2022-02-08 05:47 UTC (History)
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2015-09-23 21:32 UTC, Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) 		Details
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Description Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-09-23 21:32:15 UTC 
Created attachment 412682 [details]
build.log

app-emacs/mmm-mode configure hangs on my machine because configure script generated by autoconf calls emacs without '--no-site-file' flag.

The call that configure makes looks like this:

    sudo emacs -batch -q -eval '(while load-path (princ (concat (car load-path) "\n")) (setq load-path (cdr load-path)))'

and it hangs on

    Opening output file: no such file or directory, /root/.emacs.d/.smex-items

The call

    sudo emacs -batch -q --no-site-file -eval '(while load-path (princ (concat (car load-path) "\n")) (setq load-path (cdr load-path)))'

succeds. It is a bug in the sys-devel/autoconf and can not be fixed by patching configure.in as autoconf itself generates wrong call to emacs.
Comment 1 Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-09-23 21:41:54 UTC 
Bug report sent to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.
Comment 2 Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-09-23 22:07:41 UTC 
The same for elisp-comp file. It also calls emacs without '--no-site-file' flag.
Comment 3 Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-09-23 22:17:59 UTC 
Bug reported to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
Comment 4 Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-09-23 22:58:09 UTC 
Of course sited calls are without sudo. Wrong copy paste.
Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2015-09-23 23:11:47 UTC 
I have bumped app-emacs/mmm-mode to version 0.5.4. The new ebuild works around the problem by using the standard functions of elisp.eclass (instead of the package's build system). Please test.

Leaving this bug open for the autotools issues.
Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-09-24 03:01:21 UTC 
autoconf doesn't provide AM_xxx macros, automake does

for posterity, the bug-autoconf thread is here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2015-09/msg00020.html
Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2022-02-08 05:44:37 UTC 
going to handle this upstream.  we don't want to diverge here in Gentoo.