Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: configure: error: `CPPFLAGS' has changed since the previous run:

[Mark Knecht]

Thanks Duncan. I've attached myself to that bug report.

- Mark

On 5/18/07, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
> 5bdc1c8b0705181109g5bac491jf1eb3513d3a896dc@××××××××××.com, excerpted
> below, on  Fri, 18 May 2007 11:09:12 -0700:
>
> >    I'm trying to build mythweb which wants php. php dies with a
> > message I haven't seen before. I'm not clear why CPPFLAGS should have
> > changed unless it was a recent profile update.
> >
> >    What is the recommended 'make distclean' actually going to do?
> >
> >    Where is CPPFLAGS defined? I don't see it in make.conf.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
> > configure: loading cache ./config.cache
> > configure: error: `CPPFLAGS' has changed since the previous run:
> > configure:   former value: -I/usr/include/db4.2
> > configure:   current value: -I/usr/include/db4.2 -I/usr/include/db4.2
> > configure: error: changes in the environment can compromise the build
> > configure: error: run `make distclean' and/or
> > `rm ./config.cache' and start over
>
> That error is emitted by the configure script from upstream, not by the
> ebuild, so it's a generic error intended to help someone doing a manual
> configure and make, not someone simply running the ebuild script as part
> of a Gentoo automated build.  Thus, it's not talking about make.conf,
> which is Gentoo specific, but about the environment within the script, as
> setup by the ebuild.
>
> IOW, it's probably an ebuild bug.
>
> You don't still have confcache installed and FEATURES=confcache, do you?
> If you do, try turning off confcache, as that's no longer Gentoo
> supported.  (Some of us still run it, but know to try turning it off if
> there are issues before trying much else and certainly before filing
> bugs.)  You can turn it off for just that package by creating a file /etc/
> portage/env/<category>/<package> , in this case, /etc/portage/env/dev-
> lang/php , and putting within it a single line, FEATURE=-confcache .
>
> If confcache isn't the issue, as usual, check bugzilla, and cc yourself
> to the appropriate bug if desired or file one if necessary.  (As it
> happens, I see one already filed for this error, http://bugs.gentoo.org/
> show_bug.cgi?id=179034 , filed just today it appears.)
>
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