Package: coreutils;
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:18:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #124 received at 20733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com> To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> Cc: 20733 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> Subject: Re: bug#20733: coreutils build problem Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 10:35:34 +0200
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I had only applied the last patch, not both - so I shall backup to the
coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a.tar.xz
and apply only the second patch. This is what I thought had been done - but
at least then I will not be working from one where configure has already
been run.
michael <at> x071:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils]xz -dc
coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a.tar.xz | tar xf -
michael <at> x071:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a]cat
../avoid* | patch -p1
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file configure.ac
Same as yesterday - so looks like only one hunk had been applied.
*** time passing ***
Oh yes, forgot something... - would be 'nice' if this test happened in the
beginning...
configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set
FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check)
See `config.log' for more details
*** NEW SUMMARY - short story: there is a perl and a buffer dependency
that make AIX 5.3 TL7 a poor autoconf/automake platform ***
michael <at> x071:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils]xz -dc
coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a.tar.xz | tar xf -
michael <at> x071:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a]cat
../avoid* | patch -p1
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file configure.ac
# modified 'missing'
# Run the given program, remember its exit status.
/bin/sh -x "$@"; st=$?
Did not say much new, so adding -x to start of aclocal...
Ah - aclocal is perl - maybe they need something different from perl (I
have reinstalled this system without my own perl update!)
So I updated perl to perl-5.10.1 and now I get, sadly,
....
truncated
C_MESSAGES:$f::$n' --trace='AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_LANGINFO_H:$f::$n' --trace='gl_PREREQ_FTELLO:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_ASSERT_NO_GNULIB_POSIXCHECK:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_HEADER_ARPA_INET:$f::$n' --trace='gl_ISNANF_WORKS:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_FUNC_STRTOUMAX:$f::$n' --trace='gl_HUMAN:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_FILE_SYSTEM_USAGE:$f::$n' --trace='gl_PRINTF_INFINITE:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER_ONE:$f::$n'
--trace='gl_PREREQ_INET_NTOP:$f::$n' --trace='gl_STDARG_H:$f::$n'
configure.ac |: Arg list too long
Short message: aclocal does not check perl version when it seems it needs a
new version.
At least perl-5.8.2 does not work, while perl-5.10.1 ends in arg to long -
on AIX 5.3
So, I switched to a different server - with AIX 6.1, and a self-packaged
perl (5.14.1) - the aclocal completes.
So, as far as aclocal is concerned I will call it an AIX 5.3 bug - cannot
be fixed, that is holding up the aclocal, etc..
After running make clean, I restarted the make on the AIX 5.3 system.
Looking much better - and now I am 'stuck' because I do not understand what
is different about this man page, that it fails.
GEN man/tee.1
GEN man/test.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/test.td/[
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 127.
Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
Stop.
Making all in po
Target "all" is up to date.
Making all in .
name=`echo man/test.1 | sed 's|.*/||; s|\.1$||'` || exit 1;
case $name in install)
prog='ginstall'; argv=$name;; test) prog='[';
argv='[';; *) prog=$name;
argv=$prog;;
esac; rm -f
man/test.1 man/test.1-t
&& t=man/test.td &&
rm -rf $t &&
build-aux/install-sh -c -d
$t && (cd $t && ln -s
'/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/src/'$prog
$argv) && perl --
./man/help2man --source='GNU
coreutils 8.23.211-b1d1a'
--include=./man/$name.x
--output=$t/$name.1
--info-page='\(aq(coreutils) '$name' invocation\(aq'
$t/$argv && sed -e 's|man/test\.td/||g' -e '/For
complete documentation/d' $t/$name.1 > man/test.1-t && rm
-rf $t && chmod a-w
man/test.1-t && mv
man/test.1-t man/test.1
help2man: can't get `--help' info from man/test.td/[
Try `--no-discard-stderr' if option outputs to stderr
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 127.
Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
Simple solution, rather hack - what ./configure option stops the man pages
from being generated? Now I am back at the same problem I had with 8.21 -
when I revisited packaging it.
I know I do not have 'gettext, or makeinfo installed' - maybe that is
enough.
FYI: I am going through these builds on an extremely 'barebones' install of
AIX - just the base install, no openssl or other stuff - to really find
dependancies.
AND!! I would like to thank you now for your assistence and patience as I
go through this process - 'coreutils' is the first I am repackaging as I
research what needs to be done to be TLS1.2 safe.
p.s. On the 'tool' loaded system, the make finishes...
make[2]: Entering directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a'
(CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh
/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/build-aux/missing
autoheader)
+ eval case $# in 0) exec /usr/bin/perl -S "$0";; *) exec /usr/bin/perl -S
"$0" "$@";; esac
+ exec /usr/bin/perl -S autoheader
rm -f lib/stamp-h1
touch lib/config.hin
cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status lib/config.h
config.status: creating lib/config.h
config.status: lib/config.h is unchanged
CC src/lbracket.o
CCLD src/[
GEN man/test.1
GEN man/timeout.1
GEN man/touch.1
GEN man/tr.1
GEN man/true.1
GEN man/truncate.1
GEN man/tsort.1
GEN man/tty.1
GEN man/uname.1
GEN man/unexpand.1
GEN man/uniq.1
GEN man/unlink.1
GEN man/vdir.1
GEN man/wc.1
GEN man/whoami.1
GEN man/yes.1
GEN lib/charset.alias
GEN lib/ref-add.sed
GEN lib/ref-del.sed
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a'
Making all in gnulib-tests
make[2]: Entering directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/gnulib-tests'
GEN arg-nonnull.h
GEN c++defs.h
GEN unused-parameter.h
GEN warn-on-use.h
make all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/gnulib-tests'
Making all in .
make[4]: Entering directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/gnulib-tests'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/gnulib-tests'
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/gnulib-tests'
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/gnulib-tests'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a'
root <at> x064:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a]
So, the good news is, the patch works - and the last bit works too. Just
have to figure out what is different between the systems.
If you have ideas - please reply.
And again, my heartfelt thanks!
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/15 03:54, Michael Felt wrote:
> > I assume the error is mine, but I do not understand what.
> >
> > After automake and autoconf (just to be sure) make wants to call
> "missing", but that does not succeed.
> >
> >
> > CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh
> /data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a/build-aux/missing
> aclocal-1.15 -I m4
> > aclocal-1.15: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> > make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> > root <at> x064:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23.211-b1d1a]1d1a/build-aux/missing
> aclocal-1.15 -I m4 <
> > aclocal-1.15: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
>
> That suggests a problem with configure.ac though I don't see what,
> nor do reproduce the issue here. Were both hunks of the second patch
> applied?
> Note both patches I supplied are against the original configure.ac from
> the tarball.
> I.E. please use the orig configure.ac from the tarball and apply only the
> second patch.
>
> thanks,
> Pádraig.
>
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