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[George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>]

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:04:49 -0800
seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:

> My code makes the change to configure.in also, so that when it's
> reautotooled it will work too.  Your #sourcemage-dump output
> indicates that it simply re-ran autoconf, but you didn't paste the
> rest of the break.
> 
> I suspect you updated autoconf to a version those version of glibc
> doesn't like.
> 
> Perhaps paste the rest of the error and some build system tool
> versions...
> 
> ...so we have something to go on. ;)

I don't think the autoconf versions have anything to do with it since I
have two computers with the same version of autoconf that work fine.
Currently using autoconf version 2.6.1.

I am pretty sure that I posted the entire error, but will put it in
here again.  Here is the entire listing for the configure when it
breaks:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ accepts -g... yes
checking
whether 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/as
is GNU as... yes checking
whether 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld
is GNU ld... yes checking
for 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/as... 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/as
checking version
of 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/as...
2.17, ok checking
for 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld... 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld
checking version
of 
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld...
2.17, ok checking for pwd... /bin/pwd checking for
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc checking version of gcc... 4.0.3,
ok checking for gnumake... no checking for gmake... no checking for
make... make checking version of make... 3.81, ok checking for
gnumsgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... no checking for msgfmt...
msgfmt checking version of msgfmt... 0.16, ok checking for makeinfo...
makeinfo checking version of makeinfo... 4.8, ok
checking for sed... sed
checking version of sed... 4.1.5, ok
checking for autoconf... autoconf
checking whether autoconf works... yes
checking whether ranlib is necessary... no
checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... ok
checking whether GCC supports -static-libgcc... -static-libgcc
checking for bash... /bin/sh
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for install-info... /usr/bin/install-info
checking for bison... /usr/bin/bison
checking for signed size_t type... no
checking for libc-friendly stddef.h... yes
checking whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files... no
checking whether .text pseudo-op must be used... yes
checking for assembler global-symbol directive... .globl
checking for .set assembler directive... yes
checking for assembler .type directive prefix... @
checking for .symver assembler directive... yes
checking for ld --version-script... yes
checking for .previous assembler directive... yes
checking for .protected and .hidden assembler directive... yes
checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... yes
checking for broken __attribute__((visibility()))... no
checking for broken __attribute__((alias()))... no
checking whether to put _rtld_local into .sdata section... no
checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... yes
checking for libunwind-support in compiler... no
checking for -z nodelete option... yes
checking for -z nodlopen option... yes
checking for -z initfirst option... yes
checking for -z relro option... yes
checking for -Bgroup option... yes
checking for libgcc_s suffix... 
checking for --as-needed option... yes
checking whether --noexecstack is desirable for .S files... yes
checking for -z combreloc... yes
checking for -z execstack... yes
checking for -fpie... yes
checking for -fno-toplevel-reorder... no
checking for -fstack-protector... no
checking whether cc puts quotes around section names... no
checking for assembler .weak directive... yes
checking whether CFI directives are supported... yes
checking for ld --no-whole-archive... yes
checking for gcc -fexceptions... yes
checking for __builtin_expect... yes
checking for __builtin_memset... no
checking for redirection of built-in functions... yes
checking for __thread... yes
checking for tls_model attribute... yes
checking for libgd... no
checking for is_selinux_enabled in -lselinux... no
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for long double... yes
checking size of long double... 12
running configure fragment for sysdeps/i386/elf
checking for i386 TLS support... yes
running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread
checking for forced unwind support... yes
checking for C cleanup handling... yes
running configure fragment for sysdeps/pthread
running configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... Usage: grep
[OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information.
configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found
in 
/var/lib/sorcery/build:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/bin/X11:/root/bin:.:/usr/lib/jre1.5.0_09/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
make[1]: Failed to remake makefile
`/usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/config.make'. rm
- -f /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/stamp.o; > /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/stamp.o rm
- -f /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/stamp.os; > /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/stamp.os
rm -f /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/stamp.oS;
> /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/stamp.oS cd /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld
> && /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar
> cruv libc.a `cat stamp.o` : /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/libc.a
> cd /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld
> && /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar
> cruv libc_pic.a `cat stamp.os`
: /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/libc_pic.a
cd /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld
&& /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar
cruv libc_nonshared.a `cat
stamp.oS` : /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/libc_nonshared.a make[1]: *** No
rule to make target `/usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/Versions.all', needed by
`/usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld/abi-versions.h'.  Stop. make[1]: Leaving
directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.4' make: *** [all] Error 2

It seems this same error shows up twice before the build fails.  Here
is the first time:
checking for C cleanup handling... yes
running configure fragment for sysdeps/pthread
running configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... Usage: grep
[OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information.
configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found
in 
/var/lib/sorcery/build:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/bin/X11:/root/bin:.:/usr/lib/jre1.5.0_09/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin
for dir in /usr/src/glibc-2.4.bld sysdeps/i386/elf
nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686
nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386
nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/pthread
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common
sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386
nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/i386
nptl/sysdeps/unix sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu
nptl/sysdeps/i386/i686 sysdeps/i386/i686 sysdeps/i386/i486
nptl/sysdeps/i386/i486 sysdeps/i386/fpu nptl/sysdeps/i386 sysdeps/i386
sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64
sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf
sysdeps/generic  nptl; do \


The initial configure finds grep okay:
checking for is_selinux_enabled in -lselinux... no
checking for egrep... grep -E

George
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