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Bug 653080 - >sys-devel/autoconf-archive-2017.08.14: AX_BOOST_BASE breaks because while uname -m returned "ppc", host_cpu uses "powerpc"
Summary: >sys-devel/autoconf-archive-2017.08.14: AX_BOOST_BASE breaks because while un...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: PPC64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Keywords: PATCH
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Reported: 2018-04-13 06:33 UTC by Luke-Jr
Modified: 2022-09-09 05:33 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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AX_BOOST_BASE patch for latest autoconf archive git (ax_boost_base_fix.patch,762 bytes, patch)
2018-04-13 06:33 UTC, Luke-Jr 		Details | Diff
AX_BOOST_BASE patch for older autoconf archive versions (fixes a similar bug too) (ax_boost_base_fix_2.patch,789 bytes, patch)
2018-04-13 06:33 UTC, Luke-Jr 		Details | Diff
Lone fix for other extra-comma bug (ax_boost_base_extra_comma.patch,1.01 KB, patch)
2018-04-13 06:57 UTC, Luke-Jr 		Details | Diff
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Description Luke-Jr 2018-04-13 06:33:03 UTC 
Created attachment 527246 [details, diff]
AX_BOOST_BASE patch for latest autoconf archive git

AX_BOOST_BASE was broken on PPC64 on 2017-08-15:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf-archive.git;a=commitdiff;h=eec38689ce1b47910b60d4cfa1848b9394237214

(This breaks it because while uname -m returned "ppc", host_cpu uses "powerpc")

I have sent the patch upstream, but for now, I suggest:

1) Remove the ppc64 keywords from affected versions.
2) Bump both versions (since only one is currently stable on ppc64) with the fix (maybe leave the bumps unkeyworded on non-ppc64 arches since they don't need it?).

Note that I have not evaluated whether this may affect non-64-bit PPC as well.
Comment 1 Luke-Jr 2018-04-13 06:33:51 UTC 
Created attachment 527248 [details, diff]
AX_BOOST_BASE patch for older autoconf archive versions (fixes a similar bug too)
Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2018-04-13 06:57:59 UTC 
Created attachment 527250 [details, diff]
Lone fix for other extra-comma bug

For reference, this patch fixes another bug in 2017.09.28: the extra comma caused all arches other than amd64, sparc64, and aarch64, to fail because their lib dirs were never even checked. (It was fixed upstream in 2017-11-27.)
Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-04-14 13:56:43 UTC 
> I have sent the patch upstream,
I cannot find it in upstream mailing list/bug tracker. Where exactly did you send it to?
Comment 4 Luke-Jr 2018-04-14 18:00:35 UTC 
The listed author for AX_BOOST_BASE (Thomas Porschberg) directly.
Comment 5 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-03-31 23:37:07 UTC 
(In reply to Luke-Jr from comment #4)
> The listed author for AX_BOOST_BASE (Thomas Porschberg) directly.

Any update?