Hi Tim, sorry for the delay. On 02/11/2012 08:19 PM, Tim Retout wrote: > [ Reposted from the Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/659482 ] > > Since automake 1.11.2, aclocal no longer succeeds if the system acdir > does not exist. This causes Debian's 'make' package (and possibly > others?) to FTBFS under cowbuilder, because it calls autoreconf when > /usr/share/aclocal is not present. > But the automake build system creates /usr/share/aclocal at "make install" time... So, how comes that this "cowbuilder" provides an aclocal program without an /usr/share/aclocal directory?
Sorry, but I regard that as a broken aclocal installation, and not for a fault of the automake build system; so I'm inclined to label this report as "notabug" and close it. Still, I'll wait a couple of days before doing so, in case I've missed something or you want to provide more rationale for your request. Thanks, Stefano
