[mythtv] configure: changeset 7324 breaks gentoo ebuilds

Glen Dragon gad at jetcom.org
Mon Oct 10 23:29:37 UTC 2005


Quoting Glen Dragon <gad at jetcom.org>:

> Due to this diff from configure changeset 7324
> +  *)
> +  echo "Unknown option \"$opt\"."
> +  echo "See $0 --help for available options."
> +  exit 1
> +  ;;
>
> gentoo ebuilds are broken.  The problem is that the econf function in 
> the ebuild will pass unknown options to configure, and it will bomb 
> out.
>
> While it is possible to manually write an custom configure line in 
> the ebuild, I'm not convinced this is the correct solution. While I'm 
> not completely familiar with sytle guidelines regarding configure 
> scripts, most of the options that econf is tring to pass to configure 
> are reasonable things that could[should] be utilized on other 
> configure scripts.  At the very least here they can be ignored. There 
> are also a couple of settings that have a disable option, but 
> apparently don't like the corresponding enable option.
>
> I'd be happy to open a ticket and/or submit a patch if it is desired. 
>  Please let me know what is the right thing to do.
>
> My output of the econf / configure line follows, along with the 
> options that it does not like.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 
> --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib 
> --libdir=/usr/lib64 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --enable-mmx 
> --compile-type=release --disable-distcc --disable-distcc 
> --disable-altivec --enable-audio-oss --enable-audio-alsa 
> --disable-audio-arts --disable-audio-jack --enable-lirc 
> --enable-joystick-menu --disable-xvmc-vld --enable-dvb 
> --enable-dvb-eit --dvb-path=/usr/include --enable-opengl-vsync 
> --enable-xvmc --enable-xv --disable-directfb  --enable-x11 
> --enable-proc-opt
> Unknown option "--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
> Unknown option "--infodir=/usr/share/info".
> Unknown option "--datadir=/usr/share".
> Unknown option "--sysconfdir=/etc".
> Unknown option "--localstatedir=/var/lib".
> Unknown option "--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".
> Unknown option "--enable-audio-oss".
> Unknown option "--enable-audio-alsa".
>
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