autogen stuck on guile-2.0, refuses rebuild with guile-2.2.2

[mouse07410 (Mouse)]

macOS Sierra 10.12.4, Xcode-8.3.2, everything current/latest.

$ port installed guile
The following ports are currently installed:
  guile @2.2.2_0 (active)
$ sudo port rev-upgrade
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  Found 2 broken files, matching files to ports
--->  Found 1 broken port, determining rebuild order
You can always run 'port rev-upgrade' again to fix errors.
The following ports will be rebuilt: autogen @5.18.12
Continue? [Y/n]: y
--->  Computing dependencies for autogen
--->  Cleaning autogen
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  Found 2 broken files, matching files to ports
--->  Found 1 broken port, determining rebuild order
--->  Rebuilding in order
     autogen @5.18.12 
--->  Computing dependencies for autogen
--->  Fetching distfiles for autogen
--->  Verifying checksums for autogen
--->  Extracting autogen
--->  Applying patches to autogen
--->  Configuring autogen
Error: Failed to configure autogen, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_autogen/autogen/work/autogen-5.18.12/config.log
Error: Failed to configure autogen: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_autogen/autogen/main.log for details.
Error: rev-upgrade failed: Error rebuilding autogen
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.
$

log excerpt:

. . . . .
:info:configure configure: checking for guile 2.0
:info:configure configure: checking for guile 1.8
:info:configure configure: error: 
:info:configure No Guile development packages were found.
:info:configure Please verify that you have Guile installed.
. . . . .

[mouse07410 (Mouse)]

main.log

[mouse07410 (Mouse)]

/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_devel_autogen/autogen/work/autogen-5.18.12/config.log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Homebrew patch: ​https://github.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/blob/master/autogen/allow-guile-2.2.diff

Upstream also needs to be informed.

[mouse07410 (Mouse)]

Thank you!

In the meanwhile, it would be nice if Macports added this patch to the autogen package.

[jwhowse4]

Attached is a Portfile and a pair of patch files based on the Homebrew patch which I used to successfully build autogen on MacOS 10.10.5 with XCode 7.2.1.

[jwhowse4]

port file

[jwhowse4]

patch one

[jwhowse4]

patch two

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

The patches work on Mac OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Thanks. ​Per the guidelines, please instead attach a unified diff of the Portfile so we can easily see what changes you are proposing.

[gnw3]

guile version 2.0.14 Portfile

[gnw3]

The autogen tarball was created using guile-2.0 and the binary package for autogen was linked against guile-2.0:

$ otool -L /opt/local/bin/autogen 
/opt/local/bin/autogen:
	/opt/local/lib/libopts.25.dylib (compatibility version 42.0.0, current version 42.1.0)
	/opt/local/lib/libguile-2.0.22.dylib (compatibility version 31.0.0, current version 31.1.0)
	/opt/local/lib/libgc.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.3.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1226.10.1)
	/opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.5.0)

I looked at what versions of guile and autogen are used elsewhere in my lab:

Ubuntu 14.04 and RHEL7 use autogen-5.18 and guile-2.0.9. Msys2 uses autogen-5.18.12 and guile-2.0.14.

In my view, we need a guile20 until GNU tarballs have moved to guile-2.2. Hacking a configured package to use newer tools puts macports outside the widely used toolchains so has the potential for introducing bugs not found in systems that stick with the release configurations.

I have attached a guile20 Portfile that allows the binary autogen to run.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

See also #54293.

[mouse07410 (Mouse)]

In my view, we need a guile20 until GNU tarballs have moved to guile-2.2

Respectfully disagree.

In my view we need an autogen configurator that correctly detects guile, and does not barf if guile is of a higher version than 2.0. Especially since it does not seem to matter for the code...

As for Ubuntu 14.04 packages - who cares?

[kencu (Ken)]

I suppose if somebody put together a PR, this might be fixed already. - Ah, no maintainer. Well that might be good - once the PR is up there, any of the team can go ahead and commit it.

[johnty (johnty wang)]

this is still not working? just pulled a fresh install of macports, did an update, and then tried to add autogen. guile 2.2.2 gets installed and the autogen build fails.

[mouse07410 (Mouse)]

Since nobody seems keen on fixing it, I'm not surprised it isn't working.

Since I'm not keen on fixing this port's config as I don't have a clue how to do it, my workaround was uninstalling autogen, and getting by without that tool. So far so good.

[kencu (Ken)]

PR in place; if it passes all the Travis builds I'll add it. Works on all my system tests so far.

[kencu (Ken)]

Looks like the patches in this ticket and on homebrew are incomplete. If the Port is reconfigured with use_autoreconf yes then it still fails. There is a better patch that fixes this issue here <​http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109347> that would be more appropriate to use instead.

Also, notably, the author of autogen has not exactly certified autogen to work properly with guile-2.2 see <​http://mac-os-forge.2317878.n4.nabble.com/autogen-install-or-upgrade-fails-td336506.html> but suggests a warning be used in case there are as-yet undiscovered problems. Hmm.

I don't see any reports out there that issues have been found with autogen & guile 2.2. It's broken the way it is. I just checked the development website <​http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autogen.git/log/> and there's no indication that this issue with guile-2.2 is being fixed in the autogen source code at the moment.

I'll update the fix to use the new patch, and add a note that it hasn't been officially verified as the autogen author suggests.

[kencu (Ken)]

In 13f33d093b4b7dde9dd17a6a250c79a6e68ff207/macports-ports:

autogen: fix build against newer guile 2.2.2

closes: #54112
use autoreconf as patch changes an m4 file
revbump as builds against new library