Re: [gentoo-user] Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin

[Mick]

On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 17:44:25 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 28/04/2013 17:46, Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 14:50:58 Mick wrote:
> >> On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 13:21:35 Marc Joliet wrote:
> >>> I have to admit, I'm a bit confused. I was going to suggest rebuilding
> >>> QtWebKit, because of the undefined references and other warnings above,
> >>> but I didn't rebuild it myself after upgrading icu, and various KDE
> >>> software I have (that depends on QtWebKit, for example k3b and various
> >>> games) still runs fine.
> >>>
> >>> I would try rebuilding QtWebKit anyway, though.
> >
> > That's fixed it.  Thanks!
> >
> > Does this mean that the new *default* for make.conf should be that
> > preserve- libs is included in FEATURES, otherwise packages that depend
> > on older lib files break if older files are removed?
>
> I dunno what the default is, but I've used preserve-libs since forever.
>
> Not having it doesn't give you less than what you used to have - apps
> that link to libs which get upgraded always used to break, hence why we
> had revdep-rebuild. And far years we just dealt with this breakage.
>
> preserve-libs just delays the delete of the old lib till the point where
> nothing uses it anymore.

  :-(  

This is getting worse!

I downgraded dev-libs/icu to 49.1.2.  Then I run @preserve-rebuild and it did 
rebuild a bunch of packages.  Everything works fine.

Then tried to run update world again to update icu to the latest stable 
version 51.1.  It fails straight away:

What does this error about autotools mean?

===================================================
>>> Emerging (1 of 7) dev-libs/icu-51.1
 * icu4c-51_1-src.tgz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...                 [ 
ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking icu4c-51_1-src.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/icu-51.1/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/icu-51.1/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/icu-51.1/work/icu/source ...
 * Applying icu-4.8.1-fix_binformat_fonts.patch ...                        [ 
ok ]
 * Applying icu-4.8.1.1-fix_ltr.patch ...                                  [ 
ok ]
 * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/icu-51.1/work/icu/source' 
...
 * Running autoconf ...                                                    [ 
ok ]
 * ERROR: dev-libs/icu-51.1 failed (prepare phase):
 *   internal error: add AC_CONFIG_HEADER to ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line   93:  Called src_prepare
 *   environment, line 2975:  Called eautoreconf
 *   environment, line  907:  Called eautoheader
 *   environment, line  829:  Called _at_uses_autoheader
 *   environment, line  277:  Called _at_uses_pkg 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' 
'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADERS' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER'
 *   environment, line  309:  Called autotools_check_macro 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' 
'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADERS' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER'
 *   environment, line  484:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           has ${macro} ${ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS[@]} || die "internal error: 
add ${macro} to ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS";
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=dev-
libs/icu-51.1'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=dev-
libs/icu-51.1'`.
/usr/lib64/portage/bin/isolated-functions.sh: line 215: wait: `internal error: 
add AC_CONFIG_HEADER to ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS': not a pid or valid job spec
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/dev-
libs:icu-51.1:20130428-201855.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-
libs/icu-51.1/temp/environment'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/icu-51.1/work/icu/source'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/icu-51.1/work/icu/source'

>>> Failed to emerge dev-libs/icu-51.1, Log file:

>>>  '/var/log/portage/dev-libs:icu-51.1:20130428-201855.log'

 * Messages for package dev-libs/icu-51.1:

 * ERROR: dev-libs/icu-51.1 failed (prepare phase):
 *   internal error: add AC_CONFIG_HEADER to ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line   93:  Called src_prepare
 *   environment, line 2975:  Called eautoreconf
 *   environment, line  907:  Called eautoheader
 *   environment, line  829:  Called _at_uses_autoheader
 *   environment, line  277:  Called _at_uses_pkg 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' 
'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADERS' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER'
 *   environment, line  309:  Called autotools_check_macro 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' 
'AC_CONFIG_HEADER' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADERS' 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER'
 *   environment, line  484:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           has ${macro} ${ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS[@]} || die "internal error: 
add ${macro} to ALL_AUTOTOOLS_MACROS";
 * 
===================================================

Is this a result of me adding preserve-libs without changing something in my 
env?  :-/

-- 
Regards,
Mick