Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

[Frederic Berat]

Hello,

This one is rather unfortunate. I've seen a similar problem on multiple
packages, including make 4.4 (though not 4.4.1, so at least we can "simply"
update).
For now I also noticed rcs (5.10.1), gzip (1.12), ImageMagick (1:7.1.1.4)
with similar failures.

About 50% of the Fedora packages that depend on autoconf have been built,
these 4 are the only ones relevant for now.

Fred.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:19 AM Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 08:44 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 08:38 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > We're overdue for a new release, so here's a snapshot in preparation
> > > for that, which I want to call 2.73 (skipping 2.72).  There has never
> > > been an autoconf-2.72 release, yet `git describe` now prints 2.72c and
> > > has been printing strings like v2.72a-92-g8db00aa8 for years.
> > >
> > > If you maintain a package that uses autoconf and can make a release
> soon,
> > > please install this and use it to bootstrap its configs.  We'd love to
> > > expose any issues before we make the release.  I've already done that
> > > with grep-3.10, so far without incident.
> >
> > I work on Yocto Project which cross compiles Linux systems from
> > sources. We run autoreconf against most things.
> >
> > I tried the 2.72c tarball and found three things which failed.
> >
> > libarchive 3.6.2 at configure time:
> >
> > > checking for int16_t... no
> > > checking for uint16_t... no
> > > checking for uint8_t... no
> > > checking for gcc  options needed to detect all undeclared functions...
> cannot detect
> > > configure: error: in
> '/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/libarchive-native/3.6.2-r0/build':
> > > configure: error: cannot make gcc  report undeclared builtins
> > > See 'config.log' for more details
> > > NOTE: The following config.log files may provide further information.
> > > NOTE:
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/libarchive-native/3.6.2-r0/build/config.log
> >
> >
> > gettext 0.21.1:
> >
> > > autoreconf: running: aclocal
> --system-acdir=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal/
> --automake-acdir=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal-1.16
> -I
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-runtime/m4
> -I
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-tools/m4
> --force -I m4 -I ../m4 -I gnulib-m4
> > > autoreconf: running:
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf
> --include=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-runtime/m4
> --include=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-tools/m4
> --force
> > > configure.ac:113: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to
> allow cross compiling
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded
> from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is
> expanded from...
> > > gnulib-m4/calloc.m4:18: _AC_FUNC_CALLOC_IF is expanded from...
> > > gnulib-m4/calloc.m4:57: gl_FUNC_CALLOC_GNU is expanded from...
> > > gnulib-m4/gnulib-comp.m4:213: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> > > configure.ac:113: the top level
> > > configure.ac:113: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to
> allow cross compiling
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded
> from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is
> expanded from...
> > > gnulib-m4/getopt.m4:50: gl_GETOPT_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> > > gnulib-m4/getopt.m4:8: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX is expanded from...
> > > gnulib-m4/gnulib-comp.m4:213: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> > > configure.ac:113: the top level
> > > configure:8321: error: possibly undefined macro:
> _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
> > >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
> > >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > > autoreconf: error:
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf
> failed with exit status: 1
> > > ERROR: autoreconf execution failed.
> >
> >
> > and a similar autoreconf failure from bison 3.8.2:
> >
> > > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
> > > autoreconf: running:
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/bison-native/3.8.2-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf
> --include=./m4 --force
> > > configure.ac:285: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to
> allow cross compiling
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded
> from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is
> expanded from...
> > > m4/calloc.m4:18: _AC_FUNC_CALLOC_IF is expanded from...
> > > m4/calloc.m4:57: gl_FUNC_CALLOC_GNU is expanded from...
> > > m4/gnulib-comp.m4:385: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> > > configure.ac:285: the top level
> > > configure.ac:285: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to
> allow cross compiling
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded
> from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is
> expanded from...
> > > m4/getopt.m4:48: gl_GETOPT_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> > > m4/getopt.m4:8: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX is expanded from...
> > > m4/gnulib-comp.m4:385: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> > > configure.ac:285: the top level
> > > configure.ac:285: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to
> allow cross compiling
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded
> from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is
> expanded from...
> > > ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is
> expanded from...
> > > m4/posix_spawn.m4:132: gl_POSIX_SPAWN_WORKS is expanded from...
> > > m4/posix_spawn.m4:13: gl_POSIX_SPAWN_BODY is expanded from...
> > > m4/posix_spawn.m4:8: gl_POSIX_SPAWN is expanded from...
> > > m4/gnulib-comp.m4:385: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> > > configure.ac:285: the top level
> > > configure:8273: error: possibly undefined macro:
> _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
> > >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
> > >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> > > autoreconf: error:
> /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/bison-native/3.8.2-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf
> failed with exit status: 1
> > > ERROR: autoreconf execution failed.
> > > WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
> >
> > I haven't dug into any of the issues yet so I don't know if there is a
> > simple fix or I'm missing something obvious.
>
> The latter two look like they're as I'm missing the gnulib fixes to
> largefile.m4. Whilst we run autoreconf, we don't pull in new gnulib as
> doing that is much less standardised so this could be a bit of a pain
> for us.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>