libgsf @1.14.43 does not build on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, because "Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments"

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

config.status: creating libgsf-1.spec
config.status: creating libgsf-win32-1.pc
config.status: creating libgsf-zip
config.status: creating gsf-config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_libgsf/libgsf/work/libgsf-1.14.43':
config.status: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
    for automatic dependency tracking.  Try re-running configure with the
    '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
    the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).
See `config.log' for more details
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_libgsf/libgsf/work/libgsf-1.14.43" && ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/local --disable-silent-rules --enable-introspection 
Exit code: 1
Error: Failed to configure libgsf, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_libgsf/libgsf/work/libgsf-1.14.43/config.log
Error: Failed to configure libgsf: configure failure: command execution failed

Earlier I see:

DEBUG: system:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_libgsf/libgsf/work/libgsf-1.14.43" && ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/local --disable-silent-rules --enable-introspection 
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/ax_is_release.m4' with '/opt/local/share/aclocal/ax_is_release.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/glib-gettext.m4' with '/opt/local/share/aclocal/glib-gettext.m4'
aclocal: overwriting 'm4/pkg.m4' with '/opt/local/share/aclocal/pkg.m4'
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /opt/local/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: /opt/local/bin/aclocal --force ${ACLOCAL_FLAGS}
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: /opt/local/bin/glibtoolize --copy --force
glibtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.

Does this need a fix as well?

config.log has:

## ---------------------- ##
## Running config.status. ##
## ---------------------- ##

This file was extended by libgsf config.status 1.14.43, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was

  CONFIG_FILES    = 
  CONFIG_HEADERS  = 
  CONFIG_LINKS    = 
  CONFIG_COMMANDS = 
  $ ./config.status 

on tiger

config.status:1265: creating Makefile
config.status:1265: creating doc/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating gsf/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating gsf-win32/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating python/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating tests/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating tools/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating thumbnailer/Makefile
config.status:1265: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status:1265: creating gsf/version.c
config.status:1265: creating doc/version.xml
config.status:1265: creating libgsf-1.pc
config.status:1265: creating libgsf-1.spec
config.status:1265: creating libgsf-win32-1.pc
config.status:1265: creating libgsf-zip
config.status:1265: creating gsf-config.h
config.status:1494: executing depfiles commands
config.status:1571: cd gsf       && sed -e '/# am--include-marker/d' Makefile         | make -f - am--depfiles
/opt/local/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/Makefile.introspection:158: *** Need to define Gsf_1_gir_LIBS or Gsf_1_gir_PROGRAM.  Stop.
config.status:1576: $? = 2
config.status:1571: cd gsf-win32       && sed -e '/# am--include-marker/d' Makefile         | make -f - am--depfiles
config.status:1576: $? = 0
config.status:1571: cd tests       && sed -e '/# am--include-marker/d' Makefile         | make -f - am--depfiles
config.status:1576: $? = 0
config.status:1571: cd tools       && sed -e '/# am--include-marker/d' Makefile         | make -f - am--depfiles
config.status:1576: $? = 0
config.status:1571: cd thumbnailer       && sed -e '/# am--include-marker/d' Makefile         | make -f - am--depfiles
config.status:1576: $? = 0
config.status:1580: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_lil.fr.rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_gnome_libgsf/libgsf/work/libgsf-1.14.43':
config.status:1582: error: Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
    for automatic dependency tracking.  Try re-running configure with the
    '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
    the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).
See `config.log' for more details

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## Cache variables. ##
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[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Main.log from PPC Tiger

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Config.log from initial try

[kencu (Ken)]

I just had a very similar error trying to build the new version of libsecret on 10.4 PPC. This same bit came up:

Makefile.introspection:158: *** Need to define Gsf_1_gir_LIBS or Gsf_1_gir_PROGRAM.  Stop.

but referring to libsecret instead of gsf.

I wonder if the issue is with gobject-introspection instead?

[kencu (Ken)]

Well, I don't know about gobject-introspection. Rolling back to an older version didn't help. However, doing what the error message said to do, and

Try re-running configure with the
    '--disable-dependency-tracking'

did in fact fix the issue on libsecret and presumably would work for you too on this port.

configure.args-append --disable-dependency-tracking

Not fully sure why we need to do this all of a sudden, though. What changed?

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Replying to kencu:

I wonder if the issue is with gobject-introspection instead?

If that's the case then i might became complicated. Because no all the configure args come from Porfile. This one just appears automagically: --enable-introspection.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Replying to kencu:

Well, I don't know about gobject-introspection. Rolling back to an older version didn't help. However, doing what the error message said to do, and

Try re-running configure with the
    '--disable-dependency-tracking'

did in fact fix the issue on libsecret and presumably would work for you too on this port.

Here it looks better, too. Compilation has started and config.log does not contain the Need to define Gsf_1_gir_LIBS or Gsf_1_gir_PROGRAM.

[ballapete (Peter "Pete" Dyballa)]

Without the configure argument --disable-dependency-tracking it succeeded to build libgsf.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In cb45ca8440bf9f248307bcbd1419fa12df5bf612/macports-ports (master):

gobject_introspection-1.0.tcl: Set MAKE on Tiger

Fixes build failure of ports that use gobject introspection and automake
1.16 or later, including ports like pango that ship with Makefiles that
were generated with automake 1.16 or later, and ports like libgsf that
use autoreconf, since MacPorts automake is now 1.16.x.

Closes: #56346
Closes: #56924