Re: [oe-commits] Bogdan Marinescu : autoconf: updated to 2.69

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 15:45 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:44:06AM +0000, git@git.openembedded.org wrote:
> > > Module: openembedded-core.git
> > > Branch: master
> > > Commit: effb75d42098b3e367d393215fd5d52a0191e954
> > > URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=effb75d42098b3e367d393215fd5d52a0191e954
> > > 
> > > Author: Bogdan Marinescu <bogdan.a.marinescu@intel.com>
> > > Date:   Thu Jul 19 13:33:52 2012 +0300
> > > 
> > > autoconf: updated to 2.69
> > > 
> > > Tested with core-image-sato-sdk and lib32-core-image-sato-sdk.
> > > This update was done mainly because multilib builds failed on master with this error:
> > > 
> > > | autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /poky/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-automake-1.12.1-r0/automake-1.12.1/m4/ -I /poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.12 -I /poky/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-automake-1.12.1-r0/automake-1.12.1/aclocal-copy/ -I /poky/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-automake-1.12.1-r0/automake-1.12.1/m4/ -I /poky/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/aclocal-1.12 -I /poky/build/tmp/work/x86-pokymllib32-linux/lib32-automake-1.12.1-r0/automake-1.12.1/aclocal-copy/ --force --warnings=cross
> > > | aclocal: warning: unknown warning category 'cross'
> > > | configure.ac:18: error: Autoconf version 2.69 or higher is required
> > 
> > since this upgrade I see autom4te segfaulting when building webkit-efl
> > autom4te[8513]: segfault at 29e782688 ip 00007f7c52a96e23 sp 00007fff07731020 error 4 in Dumper.so[7f7c52a90000+8000]
> > 
> > webkit-efl build finishes fine and is usable afaik but someone would
> > expect tools like autoconf to behave better and not segfault.
> > 
> > This happens on 2 different builders each with different webkit-efl
> > version.
> 
> Nobody else have seen this in dmesg? It happens quite often and probably
> not only while building webkit-efl. Because I don't build webkit-efl so
> often:
> dmesg | grep -c "segfault at.*Dumper.so"
> 37
> 
> It could be related to perl as Dumper.so is part of perl install
> dev-lang/perl-5.16.0 (/usr/lib64/perl5/5.16.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so)
> 
> Maybe inheriting perlnative in autoconf would solve that too.

autoconf-native *must* use the system perl. Trying to do anything else
will result in circular dependencies.

Cheers,

Richard