[gentoo-dev] autotools - 'make' infinite loop

[Marcus Furlong]

Hi,

I am trying to create an ebuild for the icecream monitor available at

  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/icecream/icemon-kde3.tar.bz2

Running 'configure' goes fine, but running 'make' just keeps running
configure over and over. If there's any autotools gurus who can have a
quick look, it'd be much appreciated! :) I've spent ages trying to fix it
but to no avail, and upstream hasn't got time to look at it at the moment.

The latest version of sys-devel/icecream is required for configure to
complete the first time, the ebuild is here:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139352

Many thanks to anyone who has a few minutes to look at it,

Marcus.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools - 'make' infinite loop

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 22:05, Marcus Furlong wrote:
 Running 'configure' goes fine, but running 'make' just keeps running
 configure over and over.
It's commonly caused when the timestamp of configure and the sources for 
configure are messed up. Make sure no file has modification time in the 
future, and let the configure script to be regenerated forcefully before 
make.
If you're using kde eclass, just remove the 'configure' file before 
kde_src_compile, and the eclass will take care.

If the files have modification time in the future, you must run in src_unpack 
something like

find ${S} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 touch

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