configure error expected absolute directory name for datadir

[basquiat]

I had two systems running with coreutils 5.94, using the same useflags ("acl nls"), the same portage settings (as reported with "emerge --info"), the same locale, just differing in CPU related flags (AMD vs. Intel) and non-NPTL vs. NPTL (which shouldn't make any difference in this context).

Both machines have been synched today. The AMD machine behaved fine, the Intel machine broke.

Downgrading the broken machine's coreutils to 5.93 (with a binary package build on my working box) solved the problem there. The question remains: why?

[todw1fd]

Was having the same problem. All started after coreutils-5.94 emerge on an emerge -e system. followed the directions from another post and copied /bin/expr from another box to the afflicted one, masked coreutils-5.94, re-emerged coreutils-5.93 and all seems to be well again. For what it's worth, here's an ls -l of the binaries:

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gentoo-1 bin # ls -l exp*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81164 2006-02-19 09:16 expr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24372 2006-02-19 00:20 expr.broke

expr.broke was the binary from coreutils-5.94.

here's an emerge --info[/code]

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Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net              http://gentoo.osuosl.org                 http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo                 http://gentoo.ccccom.com                 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts artswrappersuid asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo ccache cdparanoia cdr cgi clamav commercial crypt css cups curl dbus divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse logrotate mad mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg musicbrainz nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg on-the-fly-crypt opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl pic png pop ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real samba scanner sdl slang smp smtp snmp sockets spell sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcltk tcpd tiff toolbar transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis win32codecs xcomposite xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

bash-3.1_p8 emerged fine after coreutils.  system still behaving.  running another emerge -e system to look for some more problems.  No acl on my system.

[Tane]

I have this prob also. I did "emerge -uDpv world" and it went fine. I did then "emerge -e system" because of updated glibc and then I woke up emerge was failed soon after coreutils (some ebuilds after coreutils didn't need expr it seems).

[alterself.com]

Here are the working Ubuntu Coreutils 5.93 expr binaries:

amd64 http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-amd64/expr
i386 http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-i386/expr
ppc http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-ppc/expr

Copy them to /usr/bin. After that I would mask Coreutils 5.94 and emerge the previous one (5.93):

=sys-apps/coreutils-5.94

you sir are a lifesaver!

[equi-NoX]

Here are the working Ubuntu Coreutils 5.93 expr binaries:

amd64 http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-amd64/expr
i386 http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-i386/expr
ppc http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-ppc/expr

Copy them to /usr/bin. After that I would mask Coreutils 5.94 and emerge the previous one (5.93):

=sys-apps/coreutils-5.94

thanks a lot, it fixed the problem for me

[perry]

Here are the working Ubuntu Coreutils 5.93 expr binaries:

amd64 http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-amd64/expr
i386 http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-i386/expr
ppc http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-ppc/expr

Copy them to /usr/bin. After that I would mask Coreutils 5.94 and emerge the previous one (5.93):

This fixed my problem. Thanks!

[Grooby]

this is really wierd tho. I have 2 AMD64 box here. One upgraded fine and the other does not. You guys think it might be one of the USE flag that causes it?

[micr0c0sm]

fix didn't work for me - can someone send me the entire compiled coreutils for 5.93 (for i586)?

i copied expr from 5.93 and masked 5.94 and tried compiling 5.93, but i get an automake error now.

[Stefan de Groot]

Do not forget to setthe right permissions for expr. After doing that it is working for me.
On my machine it must be placed as /bin/expr and not as /usr/bin/expr (is an symlink to /bin/expr)

[hbk3131]

Genone:

[Amd64]
I dl'ed your expr binary that you posted from coreutils-5.94 and it seems to work fine.

./expr a : '\(a\)'
a

./expr help : help
4

./expr help : '(help)'
0


My 'emerge info'

Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5-250hz-dl-nfs-i2c-debug x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5-250hz-dl-nfs-i2c-debug x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -ftracer -funit-at-a-time -funswitch-loops -frename-registers -funroll-loops -fforce-addr -fpeel-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O3 -pipe -ftracer -funit-at-a-time -funswitch-loops -frename-registers -funroll-loops -fforce-addr -fpeel-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ons/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--strip-all"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib alsa asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr crypt css curl dga dlloader dts dvd dvdread eds emboss encode extrafilters fame ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ithreads jpeg kde libcaca logrotate lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mjpeg mng modplug mp3 mpeg musepack musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real rtc sdl slang sndfile speex spell ssl tcpd tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis xine xml2 xpm xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[nbvcxz]

I had the same problem; solved with RaZoR1394 expr (thx). i think that coreutils-5.94 should be hardmasked

[DumbMan]

RaZoR1394 solution worked fine for me.

Thanks a lot RaZoR1394!!!!

Cheers,
Dumbman

[TripleM666]

had the same prob today on an i686 with coreutils-5.94 after an 'emerge -e system'. using razors expr and masking coreutils-5.94 works now.

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# emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.14.3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14.3 i686 AMD Duron(tm)
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-ident -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/  http://194.149.10.102/ http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline spell ssl tcpd threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

so long,

[friedmud]

After returning to this problem today I saw Razors post... grabbed the i386 binary and all was good.

Thanks man! Much appreciated!

Friedmud

[linkinpark342]

I'm having problems righ tnow as i'm trying to upgrade make and i think it royally screwed something over because nothing can be installed anymore through portage. I get a messege like this:

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>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/make-3.80-r3 to /
>>> checksums files   ;-) make-3.80-r2.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) make-3.80-r1.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) make-3.80-r3.ebuild
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/make-3.80-parallel-build-failure.patch
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/3.80-memory.patch
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-make-3.80-r1
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-make-3.80-r2
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/digest-make-3.80-r3
>>> checksums files   ;-) files/make-3.80-ppc64-hardened-clock_gettime.patch
>>> checksums src_uri ;-) make-3.80.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking make-3.80.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/make-3.80-r3/work
 * Applying 3.80-memory.patch ...                                [ ok ]
 * Applying make-3.80-parallel-build-failure.patch ...           [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/make-3.80-r3/work/make-3.80 ...
 * econf: updating make-3.80/config/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating make-3.80/config/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-nls --program-prefix=g --libdir=/usr/lib64 --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
./configure: line 56:  5818 Segmentation fault      expr a : '\(a\)' >/dev/null 2>&1
./configure: line 198:  5832 Segmentation fault      expr a : '\(a\)' >/dev/null 2>&1
configure: error: invalid feature name:

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/make-3.80-r3 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1894:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 941:   Called src_compile
  make-3.80-r3.ebuild, line 29:   Called econf 'compile' '--enable-nls'

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

Any advice?[/code]

[curtis119]

I merged the above post.

[Xepher]

The above expr binary (From RaZoR1394) worked great. Download that and replace the existing one in /bin Then mask coreutils-5.94 and rebuild coreutils-5.93. That solved my problem in one go, so I suggest everyone here with similar problems try that as a first fix. Thanks to everyone that figured this out.

[Spicerun]

Well, none of this solved my problems.

I've rebuilt older versions of glibc and coreutils on another machine and moved over binaries, but my machine is totally borked. emerge segfaults, and now it won't boot because Initscript wouldn't even run....and I get non-Ascii chars (or at least a strange character set) on my console window.....And no way to login now. Emerge started segfaulting just as soon as glibc-2.6.3-r3 finished emerging (with gcc-4.0.2), and my system is totally unusable now.

I just want to thank the glibc maintainer for putting out another fine patch that has now made my week (harder).

Yes, I'm pissed off.

[roarkh]

I pulled an older version of expr from another machine that I use as a router and then emerged coreutils-5.93 and all is well for me again too. I am very thankful to everyone here that worked together to find a solution for this problem. These forums and the support within the Gentoo community are one of the reasons that I like this distrubution so very much.

[ManOfMilk]

This did great! I did copy the file over it,, but I also realize that it was a symlink.. so I needed to overwrite the initial version at /bin.

Thanks for the quick fix on this guys.. I had worried that I borked my laptop something fierce last night. =) Another reason why I enjoy this distrubtion!

-Milk

[Abbadon]

Thanks for figuring this out and posting a fix. I was told it was my fault because I did not know what I'm doing.

[curtis119]

Thanks for figuring this out and posting a fix. I was told it was my fault because I did not know what I'm doing.

Who told you that?

[nesl247]

Appears that 5.94 is now hard masked.

[Genone]

Genone:

[Amd64]
I dl'ed your expr binary that you posted from coreutils-5.94 and it seems to work fine.

Ok, that confirms that it definitely is a coreutils issue (and not library related). Now the tough question is what in the config triggers it?

[padoor]

localhost / # emerge -u world
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 53) app-editors/nano-1.3.10-r1 to /
>>> checksums files nano-1.2.5.ebuild
>>> checksums files nano-1.3.10-r1.ebuild
>>> checksums files nano-1.3.9.ebuild
>>> checksums files files/digest-nano-1.3.10-r1
>>> checksums files files/digest-nano-1.2.5
>>> checksums files files/nano-1.3.10-crash.patch
>>> checksums files files/digest-nano-1.3.9
>>> checksums files files/nano-1.3.10-disp.patch
>>> checksums files files/nanorc-gentoo
>>> checksums files files/nanorc-sh
>>> checksums src_uri nano-1.3.10.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking nano-1.3.10.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/nano-1.3.10-r1/work
* Applying nano-1.3.10-disp.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying nano-1.3.10-crash.patch ... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/nano-1.3.10-r1/work/nano-1.3.10 ...
* econf: updating nano-1.3.10/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
* econf: updating nano-1.3.10/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --bindir=/bin --enable-color --enable-multibuffer --enable-nanorc --disable-wrapping-as-root --enable-spell --disable-justify --disable-debug --enable-nls --disable-utf8 --disable-tiny --without-slang --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure: error: invalid feature name:

!!! ERROR: app-editors/nano-1.3.10-r1 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 941: Called src_compile
nano-1.3.10-r1.ebuild, line 45: Called econf 'compile' '--bindir=/bin' '--enable-color' '--enable-multibuffer' '--enable-nanorc' '--disable-wrapping-as-root' '--enable-spell' '--disable-justify' '--disable-debug' '--enable-nls' '--disable-utf8' '--disable-tiny'

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

localhost / #

now its stuck here
kdm will not atart
it just gives wm xterm
no windows nothing
it does not do any more emerging
all returns the econf failed. only
how do i get out of here and get back to kde
help help