Received: (at 21400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Sep 2015 13:58:39 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Fri Sep 04 09:58:39 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48856 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXrVm-0006Vb-P0 for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:58:39 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-f176.google.com ([209.85.220.176]:34089) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <eboyd53sf@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXrVl-0006VT-EC for 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:58:37 -0400 Received: by qkfq186 with SMTP id q186so8773474qkf.1 for <21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 06:58:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Jy7Max+5jUbkGq0UowZcMbbm6cWocDrddjQ8ann41rw=; b=aWWC/YJ60YIyn/4fvUES/63d/yVrW3XVBjYnzK/98Ol90X4PFhWsLq9ETbgKXFnJ6I c5jz/f+c9EAo2Hmv2hays956jYu/8XsykgRxq+epYHodOcO6WvRuijCQ2pmYKiLHxTwH zjX5wjHE0GMUkkcbhoFq8RhifO3udjdNkO6luJ/W+G9sumiwGHQixXqnDfkNIpXzXYeG bUCNk0EHmpBMbMfn0C3Vc6NLfmpWL6wN4h3PyZ+/ZFJX0++FjuahJqzWsq7Dp7TN0oCi v8xsz0VUySzVzbk4RBis0FasEUosjPAHK2vbKWqkGPrPH3ewrEeGdM3rbF8Zht2AniYL GZrA== X-Received: by 10.55.204.16 with SMTP id r16mr5367412qki.108.1441375116588; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 06:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 140sm1375547qhy.6.2015.09.04.06.58.35 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Sep 2015 06:58:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded To: John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN>, 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> <COL403-EAS186680681C90F2F6481CE7EF3680@HIDDEN> <55E86C5E.1010805@HIDDEN> <COL403-EAS168DA2565EB53AF7A1114F1F3680@HIDDEN> From: Earnie <earnie@HIDDEN> X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55E9A391.7060601@HIDDEN> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 09:58:41 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <COL403-EAS168DA2565EB53AF7A1114F1F3680@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21400 Cc: 'Peter Rosin' <peda@HIDDEN> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) On 9/3/2015 12:06 PM, John Frankish wrote: > > Of course it's entirely up to you whether to ignore this or not, but as said > previously, it does not seem logical to search $PATH for items like strip, > ranlib and nm, but not for file. > Earlier stated that LIBTOOL requires specific strings from file to make decisions. Better then that LIBTOOL would package its own version of file and use that to make those decisions. Otherwise regardless of where file exists one is likely to execute the wrong binary. Also, if I grab the GNU file package and build it with ./configure && make && make install where is it installed? In a prefix of /usr/local because that is the default! -- Earnie
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at 21400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Sep 2015 16:06:42 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Thu Sep 03 12:06:42 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47823 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXX29-0005UW-Uc for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:06:42 -0400 Received: from col004-omc2s6.hotmail.com ([65.55.34.80]:59245) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <john.frankish@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXX26-0005UJ-QD for 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:06:40 -0400 Received: from COL403-EAS168 ([65.55.34.72]) by COL004-OMC2S6.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:06:38 -0700 X-TMN: [/LUFhFDfIrm4xV+WmFNgwQyjqCMD+1oV] X-Originating-Email: [john.frankish@HIDDEN] Message-ID: <COL403-EAS168DA2565EB53AF7A1114F1F3680@HIDDEN> From: John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN> To: <21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org> References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> <COL403-EAS186680681C90F2F6481CE7EF3680@HIDDEN> <55E86C5E.1010805@HIDDEN> In-Reply-To: <55E86C5E.1010805@HIDDEN> Subject: RE: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:06:17 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Thread-Index: AQABAgMEiSbgTtEVdk+vgxhnDQfmXADiDf0cAGrO6QkA5tbGpqG5IUwA Content-Language: en-us X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Sep 2015 16:06:38.0167 (UTC) FILETIME=[83883670:01D0E662] X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21400 Cc: 'Peter Rosin' <peda@HIDDEN> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) > > > I had a quick look, and AFAICT, all uses of hardcoded /usr/bin/file > > > are in system-specific code paths. > > > So, you must have the file utility in an odd location for your type > > > of system > > > (and /usr/local/bin seems a bit odd for a basic utility such as file). > > > > This distro (tinycorelinux) works on the basis that anything not in > > the base release should be compiled to /usr/local, which I believe was > > the original idea of /usr/local. > > > > As can be seen from above, the configure script finds strip, ranlib > > and nm in /usr/local so it would be kind of logical that it could find > > file in the same place, no? > > I always thought that /usr/local was for stuff built locally by the local admin. > FHS agrees with me, AFAICT. > > > Are you saying that tinycorelinux puts optional (non-base) packages in /usr/local? Yes :) > Seems like a very bad call to me, diverging from every other distro and unix history is painful, > to put it plainly. Not even Gentoo goes as far as putting stuff in /usr/local, > even if everything really is built by the local admin. > Where is the local admin supposed to put locally built stuff in tinycorelinux, > if /usr/local is cluttered with optional distro packages? If the app doesn't exist, the local admin compiles it to /usr/local and submits it to the online repo it so everybody can use it. > And, I refuse to think that tinycorelinux does not, at least optionally, offer a GNU file package, > so I would suggest that you install that package and move on > (it's not like Libtool depends on any state-of-the-art option that is only available since file > version x.y). If 'file' ends up under /usr/local when you do that, switch to a sane distro instead. Tinycorelinux does offer a GNU file package, which is compiled to /usr/local. Of course it's entirely up to you whether to ignore this or not, but as said previously, it does not seem logical to search $PATH for items like strip, ranlib and nm, but not for file. John
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at 21400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Sep 2015 15:51:01 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Thu Sep 03 11:51:01 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47807 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXWmy-0004xs-OM for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:51:01 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se ([130.236.254.3]:60375) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <peda@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXWmw-0004xi-N9 for 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:50:59 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587464001B; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:50:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.68] (217-210-101-82-no95.business.telia.com [217.210.101.82]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D50140018; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:50:55 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded To: John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN>, 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> <COL403-EAS186680681C90F2F6481CE7EF3680@HIDDEN> From: Peter Rosin <peda@HIDDEN> Message-ID: <55E86C5E.1010805@HIDDEN> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:50:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <COL403-EAS186680681C90F2F6481CE7EF3680@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) On 2015-09-03 10:25, John Frankish wrote: >> I had a quick look, and AFAICT, all uses of hardcoded /usr/bin/file are in > system-specific code paths. >> So, you must have the file utility in an odd location for your type of > system >> (and /usr/local/bin seems a bit odd for a basic utility such as file). > > This distro (tinycorelinux) works on the basis that anything not in the base > release should be compiled to /usr/local, which I believe was the original > idea of /usr/local. > > As can be seen from above, the configure script finds strip, ranlib and nm > in /usr/local so it would be kind of logical that it could find file in the > same place, no? I always thought that /usr/local was for stuff built locally by the local admin. FHS agrees with me, AFAICT. Are you saying that tinycorelinux puts optional (non-base) packages in /usr/local? Seems like a very bad call to me, diverging from every other distro and unix history is painful, to put it plainly. Not even Gentoo goes as far as putting stuff in /usr/local, even if everything really is built by the local admin. Where is the local admin supposed to put locally built stuff in tinycorelinux, if /usr/local is cluttered with optional distro packages? And, I refuse to think that tinycorelinux does not, at least optionally, offer a GNU file package, so I would suggest that you install that package and move on (it's not like Libtool depends on any state-of-the-art option that is only available since file version x.y). If 'file' ends up under /usr/local when you do that, switch to a sane distro instead. Besides, as always, whatever Libtool upstream does, it will take a long time for any change to reach all the packages that you likely want to build ASAP. So, anything you do to make up for this file problem will probably not go away anytime soon. Also see: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17840 Cheers, Peter
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at 21400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Sep 2015 08:25:17 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Thu Sep 03 04:25:17 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47258 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXPpc-00012L-K8 for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 04:25:16 -0400 Received: from col004-omc2s4.hotmail.com ([65.55.34.78]:64410) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <john.frankish@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXPpa-00012C-84 for 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 04:25:15 -0400 Received: from COL403-EAS186 ([65.55.34.73]) by COL004-OMC2S4.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Thu, 3 Sep 2015 01:25:13 -0700 X-TMN: [kA/N/517ylN2+PGWajupjkyGxikPIX8f] X-Originating-Email: [john.frankish@HIDDEN] Message-ID: <COL403-EAS186680681C90F2F6481CE7EF3680@HIDDEN> From: John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN> To: <21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org> References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> In-Reply-To: <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> Subject: RE: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 12:25:08 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Thread-Index: AQABAgMEiSbgTtEVdk+vgxhnDQfmXAC+793kocRGfJA= Content-Language: en-us X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Sep 2015 08:25:13.0523 (UTC) FILETIME=[0E32C830:01D0E622] X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21400 Cc: 'Peter Rosin' <peda@HIDDEN> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) > > I see an error that /usr/bin/file cannot be found when running the > > configure script in many packages - in my distro "file" is at /usr/local/bin/file. > > > > As an example, using NetworkManager-1.0.4, gives: > > > > ./configure > > ... > > checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip > > [which is in /usr/local/bin] checking for ranlib... ranlib [which is > > in /usr/local/bin] checking command to parse /usr/local/bin/nm -B > > output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no > > ./configure: ./configure.lineno: line 1: /usr/bin/file: not found [but > > it is in /usr/local/bin] checking for mt... no checking if : is a > > manifest tool... no checking for dlfcn.h... yes > > > > I'm told this is due to the location of "file" being hard coded in > > NetworkManager-1.0.4/m4/libtool.m4 > > > > Would it be possible to look for "file" in $PATH instead? > > I'm not saying that I'm going to look further at this, but we need more info. > > What triplet is this? In this case x86_64, but the same thing happens on 32-bit x86 > Did you build from the NetworkManager-1.0.4 release tar-ball (which includes Libtool 2.4.2), > or did you build NetworkManager from git? > And what version of Libtool did you bootstrap with in case you did use git? I built from the NetworkManager-1.0.4 release tar-ball, but the same thing happens on many other release tar-balls > I had a quick look, and AFAICT, all uses of hardcoded /usr/bin/file are in system-specific code paths. > So, you must have the file utility in an odd location for your type of system > (and /usr/local/bin seems a bit odd for a basic utility such as file). This distro (tinycorelinux) works on the basis that anything not in the base release should be compiled to /usr/local, which I believe was the original idea of /usr/local. As can be seen from above, the configure script finds strip, ranlib and nm in /usr/local so it would be kind of logical that it could find file in the same place, no? John
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2015 19:03:20 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Wed Sep 02 15:03:20 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46761 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXDJY-00033f-53 for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:20 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34283) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJW-00033X-7n for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJQ-0002Ut-NS for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:18 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:60095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJQ-0002Up-LB for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:12 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJM-0006cf-He for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJL-0002Tg-BY for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:08 -0400 Received: from blade.simplesystems.org ([65.66.246.74]:48353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJL-0002RZ-46 for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:07 -0400 Received: from freddy.simplesystems.org (freddy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.65]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t82J2tRc024730; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:02:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:02:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@HIDDEN> X-X-Sender: bfriesen@HIDDEN To: Peter Rosin <peda@HIDDEN> Subject: Re: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded In-Reply-To: <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1509021358020.3938@HIDDEN> References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:02:56 -0500 (CDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit Cc: 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN>, bug-libtool@HIDDEN X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Peter Rosin wrote: > > I had a quick look, and AFAICT, all uses of hardcoded /usr/bin/file are > in system-specific code paths. So, you must have the file utility in an > odd location for your type of system (and /usr/local/bin seems a bit odd > for a basic utility such as file). I do recall libtool discussions of the 'file' command from a long time ago. The hard-coded path is surely by design and not by accident. While there is one popular implementation of the 'file' command it may be that there are other programs called 'file' in the path which do something else entirely. Libtool depends on specific text being printed by the 'file' command in order to make key decisions. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@HIDDEN, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at 21400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2015 19:03:01 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Wed Sep 02 15:03:01 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46757 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXDJE-00032l-Oa for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:03:01 -0400 Received: from blade.simplesystems.org ([65.66.246.74]:48352) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXDJC-00032b-Cn for 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:02:59 -0400 Received: from freddy.simplesystems.org (freddy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.65]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t82J2tRc024730; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:02:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:02:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@HIDDEN> X-X-Sender: bfriesen@HIDDEN To: Peter Rosin <peda@HIDDEN> Subject: Re: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded In-Reply-To: <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1509021358020.3938@HIDDEN> References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:02:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21400 Cc: 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN>, bug-libtool@HIDDEN X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Peter Rosin wrote: > > I had a quick look, and AFAICT, all uses of hardcoded /usr/bin/file are > in system-specific code paths. So, you must have the file utility in an > odd location for your type of system (and /usr/local/bin seems a bit odd > for a basic utility such as file). I do recall libtool discussions of the 'file' command from a long time ago. The hard-coded path is surely by design and not by accident. While there is one popular implementation of the 'file' command it may be that there are other programs called 'file' in the path which do something else entirely. Libtool depends on specific text being printed by the 'file' command in order to make key decisions. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@HIDDEN, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at 21400) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2015 18:16:17 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Wed Sep 02 14:16:17 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46715 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZXCa1-0001vQ-0L for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:16:17 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se ([130.236.254.3]:46059) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <peda@HIDDEN>) id 1ZXCZy-0001vH-Sr for 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:16:15 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BC040023; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 20:16:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.68] (217-210-101-82-no95.business.telia.com [217.210.101.82]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B276240005; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 20:16:12 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: bug#21400: Location of "file" is hard coded To: John Frankish <john.frankish@HIDDEN>, 21400 <at> debbugs.gnu.org References: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> From: Peter Rosin <peda@HIDDEN> Message-ID: <55E73CEA.4020007@HIDDEN> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 20:16:10 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <COL403-EAS3315C55E135661887E9843FF3690@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) On 2015-09-02 17:18, John Frankish wrote: > Hi, > > I see an error that /usr/bin/file cannot be found when running the configure > script in many packages - in my distro "file" is at /usr/local/bin/file. > > As an example, using NetworkManager-1.0.4, gives: > > ./configure > ... > checking for archiver @FILE support... @ > checking for strip... strip [which is in /usr/local/bin] > checking for ranlib... ranlib [which is in /usr/local/bin] > checking command to parse /usr/local/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok > checking for sysroot... no > ./configure: ./configure.lineno: line 1: /usr/bin/file: not found [but it is > in /usr/local/bin] > checking for mt... no > checking if : is a manifest tool... no > checking for dlfcn.h... yes > > I'm told this is due to the location of "file" being hard coded in > NetworkManager-1.0.4/m4/libtool.m4 > > Would it be possible to look for "file" in $PATH instead? Hi, and thanks for the report! I'm not saying that I'm going to look further at this, but we need more info. What triplet is this? Did you build from the NetworkManager-1.0.4 release tar-ball (which includes Libtool 2.4.2), or did you build NetworkManager from git? And what version of Libtool did you bootstrap with in case you did use git? I had a quick look, and AFAICT, all uses of hardcoded /usr/bin/file are in system-specific code paths. So, you must have the file utility in an odd location for your type of system (and /usr/local/bin seems a bit odd for a basic utility such as file). Cheers, Peter
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21400; Package libtool.
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