Please consider reverting autoconf-lean from toolchain

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 3/1/21 3:54 PM, Hannu Nyman wrote:
> Apparently autoconf-lean, merged into the toolchain during last weekend, 
> causes problems with various packages at buildbot.
> 
> I am not sure if that is due to underlying problems in the specific 
> failing packages, or due to a wrong site config from autoconf-lean, but 
> buildbot is gradually hitting the problems as packages are built with 
> faulty SDKs.
> 
> I suggest that the new autoconf-lean stuff is reverted until the 
> failures are understood better.
> 
> I have filed bug FS#3655 and earlieralso a packages issue as that was 
> how I found the issue in my own build.
> 
> There are several buildbot failure logs examples in the bug FS#3655.
> 
> At least ntfs-3g, rsync, nedata, and possibly also mac80211 and mwlwifi 
> are failing for some targets.
> (not sure about mac80211 and mwlwifi failures' relation)
> 
> I reverted autoconf-lean from my buildhost and I was again able to build 
> ntfs-3g.
> 
> 
> Extract from bug FS#3655:
> 
> https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3655&order=id&sort=desc 
> 
> 
> -------
> 
> autoconf-lean stuff from Felix was merged by Daniel a few days ago to 
> master with commits
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=32c664ff02910bf39a3fbd5a5a4a8bff3191dd03� 
> and
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=f439e291304a93b982e912dc91b80ca950a594f3 
> 
> 
> That seems to cause buildhost-specific variation in the generated site 
> config files, and causes variating breakage from some packages.
> 
> I stumbled upon this on weekend with ntfs-3g, which suddenly does not 
> compile in my Ubuntu 20.10 in Virtualbox. I filed a bug about ntfs-3g to 
> packages feed, but this is more generic:
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/14940
> 
> 
> The same buildhost builds 21.02 without problems (and that is still 
> pretty identical to master regarding packages)
> 
> Reverting autoconf-lean commits fixes things for me.
> 
> There are now others with the same symptoms, based on responses to the 
> packages feed bug.
> 
> Buildbot is now meeting the same problem. At least ntfs-3g, rsync, 
> nedata, and possibly also mac80211 and mwlwifi are failing for some 
> targets with some buildhosts (with the new SDK).
> 
> E.g.
> https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/faillogs/aarch64_cortex-a72/packages/ntfs-3g/compile.txt 

OpenWrt does not build with glibc for me and the build bots.

When I remove this setting at least the autoconf-lean packet links, but 
I still have some build problems.
ac_cv_lib_xnet_main=${ac_cv_lib_xnet_main=yes}

Hauke
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