[gnome-love] Re: jhbuild and setgid

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 4/3/06, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> I'm hoping somebody here can help me.  I've been happily building
> things with jhbuild for quite some time now.  But sometime in the last
> couple of days, things just stopped working.  I have no idea what the
> cause was, but now I keep getting this error:
>
> $ jhbuild build -a fontconfig
> *** Checking out fontconfig *** [1/1]
>
> cvs -z3 -q -d :pserver:anoncvs anoncvs freedesktop org:/cvs/fontconfig
> update -dP -r fc-2_4_branch .
> *** Configuring fontconfig *** [1/1]
>
> ./autogen.sh --prefix /opt/gnome2 --libdir '${exec_prefix}/lib64'
> --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc
> Running aclocal -I /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal
> /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal/nspr.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition
> of AM_PATH_NSPR
>   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4:12: warning: underquoted
> definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE
> Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running setgid at
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8/IO/File.pm line 70.
> *** error during stage configure of fontconfig: could not configure
> module *** [1/1]
>
>
> Essentially, any time I need to reconfigure anything, it gives an
> error about setgid.  I haven't seen anything like this.  Does anybody
> know what might have changed?  It doesn't seem like a jhbuild problem
> necessarily since it's a perl error, so it must be related to
> autotools (?).
>
> thanks,
> Jonner

For the archives, I'm answering my own question.  It turns out that it
was due to a directory that had the g+s permission bit set. 
Everything seems to work now that I removed that.