%configure macro of fedora not working

[hannes101]

Hi all,

I am currently reviving the backintime package in fedora. I stumbled across the problem, that the configure script of bit does not work with the %configure macro we usually are advised to use in fedora.
I attach the result, when using both the ./configure call and the %configure macro and I would like to ask if it would be possible to fix this or give me some arguments to convince fellow packagers, why it's better to use ./configure directly.

Cheers,
Johannes

Mock Version: 1.2.14
Mock Version: 1.2.14
ENTER do(['bash', '--login', '-c', '/usr/bin/rpmbuild -bs --target noarch --nodeps /builddir/build/SPECS/backintime.spec'], user='mockbuild'shell=Falseenv={'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'PROMPT_COMMAND': 'printf "\x1b]0;<mock-chroot>\x07<mock-chroot>"', 'HOSTNAME': 'mock', 'TERM': 'vt100', 'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'HOME': '/builddir', 'PATH': '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'}logger=<mockbuild.trace_decorator.getLog object at 0x7f8fd2165c18>gid=425timeout=172800printOutput=Falseuid=1000chrootPath='/var/lib/mock/f23-build-5060677-582146/root')
Executing command: ['bash', '--login', '-c', '/usr/bin/rpmbuild -bs --target noarch --nodeps /builddir/build/SPECS/backintime.spec'] with env {'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'PROMPT_COMMAND': 'printf "\x1b]0;<mock-chroot>\x07<mock-chroot>"', 'HOSTNAME': 'mock', 'TERM': 'vt100', 'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'HOME': '/builddir', 'PATH': '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'} and shell False
warning: Could not canonicalize hostname: buildvm-02-nfs.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Building target platforms: noarch
Building for target noarch
Wrote: /builddir/build/SRPMS/backintime-1.1.12-1.fc23.src.rpm
Child return code was: 0
LEAVE do --> 

ENTER do(['bash', '--login', '-c', '/usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb --target noarch --nodeps  /builddir/build/SPECS/backintime.spec '], user='mockbuild'shell=Falseenv={'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'PROMPT_COMMAND': 'printf "\x1b]0;<mock-chroot>\x07<mock-chroot>"', 'HOSTNAME': 'mock', 'TERM': 'vt100', 'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'HOME': '/builddir', 'PATH': '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'}private_network=Truelogger=<mockbuild.trace_decorator.getLog object at 0x7f8fd2165c18>gid=425timeout=172800printOutput=Falseuid=1000chrootPath='/var/lib/mock/f23-build-5060677-582146/root')
Executing command: ['bash', '--login', '-c', '/usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb --target noarch --nodeps  /builddir/build/SPECS/backintime.spec '] with env {'SHELL': '/bin/bash', 'PROMPT_COMMAND': 'printf "\x1b]0;<mock-chroot>\x07<mock-chroot>"', 'HOSTNAME': 'mock', 'TERM': 'vt100', 'LANG': 'en_US.UTF-8', 'HOME': '/builddir', 'PATH': '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'} and shell False
Building target platforms: noarch
Building for target noarch
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.zwbXKb
+ umask 022
+ cd /builddir/build/BUILD
+ cd /builddir/build/BUILD
+ rm -rf backintime-1.1.12
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /builddir/build/SOURCES/backintime-1.1.12.tar.gz
+ /usr/bin/tar -xof -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd backintime-1.1.12
+ /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.aAROc3
+ umask 022
+ cd /builddir/build/BUILD
+ cd backintime-1.1.12
+ sed -i s/Icon=document-save/Icon=backintime/g qt4/backintime-qt4.desktop
+ sed -i s/Icon=document-save/Icon=backintime/g qt4/backintime-qt4-root.desktop
+ pushd common
~/build/BUILD/backintime-1.1.12/common ~/build/BUILD/backintime-1.1.12
+ ./configure --no-fuse-group --python3
which: no py.test-3 in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin)
which: no coverage in (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin)
All OK. Now run:
    make
    sudo make install
+ make -j4
msgfmt -o po/zh_TW.mo po/zh_TW.po
msgfmt -o po/zh_CN.mo po/zh_CN.po
msgfmt -o po/uk.mo po/uk.po
msgfmt -o po/tr.mo po/tr.po
msgfmt -o po/th.mo po/th.po
msgfmt -o po/sv.mo po/sv.po
msgfmt -o po/sr.mo po/sr.po
msgfmt -o po/sl.mo po/sl.po
msgfmt -o po/sk.mo po/sk.po
msgfmt -o po/ru.mo po/ru.po
msgfmt -o po/ro.mo po/ro.po
msgfmt -o po/pt_BR.mo po/pt_BR.po
msgfmt -o po/pt.mo po/pt.po
msgfmt -o po/pl.mo po/pl.po
msgfmt -o po/nn.mo po/nn.po
msgfmt -o po/nl.mo po/nl.po
msgfmt -o po/nb.mo po/nb.po
msgfmt -o po/lt.mo po/lt.po
msgfmt -o po/ko.mo po/ko.po
msgfmt -o po/jv.mo po/jv.po
msgfmt -o po/ja.mo po/ja.po
msgfmt -o po/it.mo po/it.po
msgfmt -o po/is.mo po/is.po
msgfmt -o po/id.mo po/id.po
msgfmt -o po/hu.mo po/hu.po
msgfmt -o po/hr.mo po/hr.po
msgfmt -o po/he.mo po/he.po
msgfmt -o po/gl.mo po/gl.po
msgfmt -o po/fr.mo po/fr.po
msgfmt -o po/fo.mo po/fo.po
msgfmt -o po/fi.mo po/fi.po
msgfmt -o po/eu.mo po/eu.po
msgfmt -o po/et.mo po/et.po
msgfmt -o po/es.mo po/es.po
msgfmt -o po/eo.mo po/eo.po
msgfmt -o po/en_GB.mo po/en_GB.po
msgfmt -o po/en_CA.mo po/en_CA.po
msgfmt -o po/el.mo po/el.po
msgfmt -o po/de.mo po/de.po
msgfmt -o po/da.mo po/da.po
msgfmt -o po/cs.mo po/cs.po
msgfmt -o po/ca.mo po/ca.po
msgfmt -o po/bs.mo po/bs.po
msgfmt -o po/bg.mo po/bg.po
msgfmt -o po/ar.mo po/ar.po
#man pages
for i in $(ls -1 man/C/); do case $i in *.gz|*~) continue;; *) gzip -n --best -c man/C/$i > man/C/${i}.gz;; esac; done
#config-examples
gzip -n --best -c config-example-local > config-example-local.gz
gzip -n --best -c config-example-ssh > config-example-ssh.gz
+ popd
~/build/BUILD/backintime-1.1.12
~/build/BUILD/backintime-1.1.12/qt4 ~/build/BUILD/backintime-1.1.12
+ pushd qt4
+ CFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=pentium3'
+ export CFLAGS
+ CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=pentium3'
+ export CXXFLAGS
+ FFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=pentium3 -I/usr/lib/gfortran/modules'
+ export FFLAGS
+ FCFLAGS='-O2 -g -march=pentium3 -I/usr/lib/gfortran/modules'
+ export FCFLAGS
+ LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld'
+ export LDFLAGS
+ '[' 1 = 1 ']'
+++ dirname ./configure
++ find . -name config.guess -o -name config.sub
+ '[' 1 = 1 ']'
+ '[' x '!=' x-specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld ']'
++ find . -name ltmain.sh
+ ./configure --build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --python3
Usage:
./configure [--python | --python3]
--python
\tuse 'python' to start Python3
--python3
\tuse 'python3' to start Python3
+ make -j4
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.aAROc3 (%build)
    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.aAROc3 (%build)
RPM build errors:
Child return code was: 1
EXCEPTION: Command failed. See logs for output.
 # bash --login -c /usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb --target noarch --nodeps  /builddir/build/SPECS/backintime.spec 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mockbuild/trace_decorator.py", line 84, in trace
    result = func(*args, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mockbuild/util.py", line 526, in do
    raise exception.Error("Command failed. See logs for output.\n # %s" % (command,), child.returncode)
mockbuild.exception.Error: Command failed. See logs for output.
 # bash --login -c /usr/bin/rpmbuild -bb --target noarch --nodeps  /builddir/build/SPECS/backintime.spec 
LEAVE do --> EXCEPTION RAISED
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[Germar]

Could you please show me your build script? The build in common is fine. But in qt4 there are lots of args that our configure script doesn't handle. Can you remove them? Or are they added by a wrapper script?

We could change configure to just ignore unknown args. At the moment it will error out on unknown args and show usage

[hannes101]

Thanks for the quick reply and the help! The args are expanded from the %configure macro we are using. I don't know if ignoring them is the best way, perhaps they might be useful?
I uploaded the spec, which is used to build the rpm. https://hannes.fedorapeople.org/backintime.spec

Thanks again,
Johannes

[buhtz]

@hannes101 There is a new forming maintaining team and we do review all issues. Is this problem still relevant for you or did you find a solution?

@emtiu Distro-specific (Fedora), Infrastructure (build script)

[hannes101]

No, that can be safely closed.