Re: [gentoo-user] sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

[David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de>]

Hello,

On Wed, 08 Apr 2020, gevisz wrote:
>I've tried to install julia-1.4.0 but one of its dependencies, namely,
>sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge with the following error message:
>
>* Failed Running automake !
> *
> * Include in your bugreport the contents of:
> *
> *   /var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1/temp/automake.out

The patch spqr-1.2.3-autotools.patch is broken, it includes two
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE lines in configure.ac:

====
[..]
--- configure.ac        1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ configure.ac        2009-10-22 23:42:32.000000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+AC_PREREQ(2.59)
+AC_INIT(spqr, 1.2, davis@cise.ufl.edu)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Source/spqr_kernel.cpp])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
[..]
====

Deleting the first (and adjusting the patchlength: '@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@')
and it works.

HTH,
-dnh

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