[MacPorts] #62994: various ports fail to install on Leopard due to gnulib issue: /confdir-14B---: No space left on device

[MacPorts]

#62994: various ports fail to install on Leopard due to gnulib issue: /confdir-
14B---: No space left on device
-----------------------------------+----------------------
  Reporter:  kencu                 |      Owner:  mascguy
      Type:  defect                |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal                |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                 |    Version:
Resolution:                        |   Keywords:  leopard
      Port:  m4, bison, findutils  |
-----------------------------------+----------------------

Comment (by ballapete):

 In #64373 I emphasised that in `MacPorts` the `configure` script runs with
 `elevated or root priviledges`, while in my own environment it had normal
 priviledges. My `configure` script was invoked this way: `time nice +11
 env LANG=C
 PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-silent-rules --program-prefix=g
 CFLAGS="-pipe -Os -arch ppc" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"
 LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -arch ppc"
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/nspr/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
 CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 INSTALL="/usr/bin/install -c"` to mimic the `MacPorts`
 behaviour. I invoked it this evening like this:

 {{{
 time nice +11 sudo env LANG=C
 PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-silent-rules --program-prefix=g
 CFLAGS="-pipe -Os -arch ppc" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include"
 LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -arch ppc"
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/nspr/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
 CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 INSTALL="/usr/bin/install -c"
 }}}

 inserting a `sudo` before setting the process environment for `configure`.
 `Configure's` output in GNU Emacs' *compilation* buffer is the same as
 mine, and the `config.log` files also do not differ. So it must be
 something in `MacPorts` environment that hinders `configure` to find out
 immediately that `getcwd aborts when 4k < cwd_length < 16k`. And so it has
 to perform the problematic directory tree depth test.

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62994#comment:24>
MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/>
Ports system for macOS