Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 07/06/10 19:34:29, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch writes:
>
> > I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine)
> >
> > ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments
> >
> > Looking at this line it shows
> >      if test $ax_python_header != no; then
> >
> > So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header.
> >
> > Putting some echo statements into configure doesn't work,
> > it seems to regenerated on each  'ebuild .... compile'
>
> I'd call the configure script by hand, search for it in
> /var/tmp/portage.
> If it gives the same error (which may not be the case because you do
> not
> give it the same arguments as portage does), add the echo statement,
> and
> try again to see the value of $ax_python_header. I guess it has
> whitespace
> in it, so the test fails. This would be solved by quoting the
> variable.
> The configure script is created from something like configure.ac, you
> will
> probably find the test statement there, too. You could change it
> (adding
> quotes), and use ebuild ... compile to build.
>
> Please file a bug for the package.
>
Many thanks, Alex.

It turned out that pythonmagick's configure contains
  ax_python_header=\
  `locate python$python_version/Python.h | sed -e s,/Python.h,,`

which I regard as very strange style.

Since I have a mirror /Store1/usr_mirror
locate locates both 
/usr/include/python2.6
and
/Store1/usr_mirror/include/python2.6

I'm going to file a bug report.
Helmut.