Bug 7538

Summary: Casual failure on yasm recipe
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Pau Espin Pedrol <pespin.shar>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Bogdan Alexandru Voiculescu <bogdanx.a.voiculescu>
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: bogdanx.a.voiculescu, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, ross.burton
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: 1.9   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
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OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)
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Description Pau Espin Pedrol 2015-03-30 13:31:30 UTC 
Created attachment 2459 [details]
patch

I write this in here as bug report as I didn't receive response in IRC:

[14:51] <pespin> Hi, a colleague of mine got this error while building yasm in poky a few days ago: configure.ac:99: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_WITH_DMALLOC | If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
[14:51] <pespin> I am not able to reproduce it now, but I read several topics on the internet
[14:51] <pespin> and it seems related to AC stuff being read from aclocal.m4 which gets deleted at some point in build
[14:51] <pespin> and I saw several recipes copying the file to acinclude.m4
[14:52] <pespin> can someone give me five cents on wheter that should be done for yasm?
[14:52] <pespin> it is indeed reading from aclocal.m4 too



ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/temp/log.do_configure.726)
ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/temp/log.do_configure.726
Log data follows: | DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate | DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished | DEBUG: Executing shell function autotools_preconfigure | DEBUG: Shell function autotools_preconfigure finished | DEBUG: Executing python function autotools_copy_aclocals | DEBUG: Python function autotools_copy_aclocals finished | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure | automake (GNU automake) 1.14 | Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.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 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> | and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>. | AUTOV is 1 | NOTE: Executing ACLOCAL="aclocal --system-acdir=/home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/build/aclocal-copy/" autoreconf --verbose --install --force --exclude=autopoint -I /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/yasm-1.2.0/m4/ | autoreconf: Entering directory `.' | autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext | autoreconf: running: aclocal --system-acdir=/home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/build/aclocal-copy/ -I /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/yasm-1.2.0/m4/ -I /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/yasm-1.2.0/m4/ --force -I m4 | configure.ac:99: warning: macro 'AM_WITH_DMALLOC' not found in library | 1.2.0 | autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing | autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION | autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool | autoreconf: running: /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/autoconf --include=/home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/yasm-1.2.0/m4/ --force | configure.ac:99: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_WITH_DMALLOC | If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. | See the Autoconf documentation. | autoreconf: /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 | ERROR: autoreconf execution failed. | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command. | ERROR: Function failed: do_configure (log file is located at /home/extra/git/mydistro/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/yasm-native/1.2.0-r0/temp/log.do_configure.726)
ERROR: Task 1879 (virtual:native:/home/extra/git/mydistro/build/../poky/meta/recipes-devtools/yasm/yasm_1.2.0.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1'

I also found some message like this one, which makes me think acincude.m4 should be used instead of aclocal.m4:
dnl acinclude.m4. Change *this* file to add new or change macros.
dnl When changes have been made, delete aclocal.m4 and run
dnl "aclocal".
dnl
dnl DO NOT change aclocal.m4 !
dnl



I attach a patch as a fix in case it is actually needed, as seen in other recipes:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-March/005712.html
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2015-04-02 16:05:56 UTC 
The upstream aclocal.m4 appears to be a correctly generated file instead of hand-coded which is the usual problem, so this isn't the correct fix.  I also can't replicate this.

What release of oe-core/poky/etc are you using?
Comment 2 Pau Espin Pedrol 2015-04-08 08:18:25 UTC 
I wasn't able to replicate it neither, it was only triggered once by a colleague of mine, but I though it would be worth reporting it in case someone had similar problems.

I am using yocto 1.6.1
Comment 3 Paul Eggleton 2015-06-09 17:14:11 UTC 
So at the moment given the bug doesn't seem to be reproducible and the attached fix isn't the correct one, I'm inclined to close this I'm afraid - but if you do figure out a way to reproduce it or even better you manage to fix the underlying cause, please do reopen the bug and we'll dig into it.
Comment 4 Pau Espin Pedrol 2015-06-10 14:34:47 UTC 
Hi, sounds good to me to close it as I was not even able to reproduce it again myself.

Thanks for reviewing.
Comment 5 Bogdan Alexandru Voiculescu 2015-08-28 11:56:05 UTC 
can not be reproduced by reporter