Re: automake config failure for autoconf test failure (poudriere based build activity)

From: Mark Millard via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:09:23 UTC

On 2021-Nov-16, at 08:42, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:57:23 -0800 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> poudriere output:
>> 
>> [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Saved devel/automake | automake-1.16.4 wrkdir to: /usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs/13_0R-CA72-default/default/automake-1.16.4.tbz
>> [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Finished devel/automake | automake-1.16.4: Failed: configure
>> . . .
>> 
>> logs/errors/automake-1.16.4.log :
>> 
>> . . .
>> checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
>> checking whether autoconf works... no
>> configure: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
>>    Please check config.log for error messages before this one.
>> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.  
>> Please report the problem to tijl@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
>> "/wrkdirs/usr/ports/devel/automake/work/automake-1.16.4/config.log" including
>> the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
>> to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a
>> /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -Ea).
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop.
>> make: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/automake
>> =>> Cleaning up wrkdir  
>> ===>  Cleaning for automake-1.16.4  
>> build of devel/automake | automake-1.16.4 ended at Sun Nov 14 17:01:21 PST 2021
>> build time: 00:01:09
>> !!! build failure encountered !!!
>> 
>> 
>> work/automake-1.16.4/config.log :
>> 
>> . . .
>> configure:3650: checking whether autoconf is installed
>> configure:3656: autoconf --version
>> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
>> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>> 
>> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
>> configure:3659: $? = 0
>> configure:3667: result: yes
>> configure:3674: checking whether autoconf works
>> configure:3684: cd conftest && autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac
>> gm4:/usr/local/share/autoconf-2.69/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:1: expecting character `V' in frozen file
>> autom4te-2.69: /usr/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
>> configure:3687: $? = 1
>> configure:3696: result: no
>> configure:3700: error: The installed version of autoconf does not work.
>>    Please check config.log for error messages before this one.
>> . . .
>> 
>> 
>> For reference:
>> 
>> # uname -apKU
>> FreeBSD CA72_16Gp_ZFS 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #19 main-n250667-20aa359773be-dirty: Sun Nov 14 02:57:32 PST 2021     root@CA72_16Gp_ZFS:/usr/obj/BUILDs/main-CA72-nodbg-clang/usr/main-src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC-NODBG-CA72  arm64 aarch64 1400042 1400042
>> 
>> # cd /usr/ports/
>> # ~/fbsd-based-on-what-commit.sh 
>> branch: main
>> merge-base: 057c0c3c0645c0b237bb2a96dda440e0426ca983
>> merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-11-14 23:41:22 +0000
>> 057c0c3c0645 (HEAD -> main, freebsd/main, freebsd/HEAD) [NEW] security/snowflake-tor: Pluggable Transport using WebRTC inspired by Flashproxy
>> n566061 (--first-parent --count for merge-base)
>> 
>> 
>> Note(s):
>> 
>> My amd64 FreeBSD context using the same sources (by content) did not
>> have this problem.
> 
> That's a strange error.  Maybe try to rebuild m4 and autoconf packages.
> On the FreeBSD package build cluster it builds fine.  Here's the log
> from today:
> http://ampere2.nyi.freebsd.org/data/main-arm64-default/latest-per-pkg/automake-1.16.4.log

On the FreebSD vintage involved, I seem to be getting fairly
rare file corruptions during port builds in my aarch64 context.
No retry of building a port that contained the corrupted file
has produced a corruption in these cases. autoconf turned out
to not be the only example: there were two others. (I've did
multiple bulk -a runs back in October (for otehr reqsons)
without evidence of corruptions. But bulk -a is not something
I'd normally do and I did not keep the results. In this context
between 400 and 500 port were built in each of 3 poudriere
jails. 2 known corruptions in one jail's build, 1 in another,
and one with no known corruptions.)

So I got past the autoconf/automake problem but I've no clue
how to set up a reproducible context for isolating what leads
to having a corruption.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
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