Hi Daniel, Thanks for the quick response. I agree that this is a contentious issue without a true solution right now, which is why I am just proposing dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev for affected packages at the moment. I am personally not a fan of running dh-autoreconf by default, as it often requires fixes such as disabling -Werror or fixing macro directories in configure.ac. I am more of a fan of individual fixes where necessary. Also, note that (from what I can tell) an autoreconf is not necessary when the source package doesn't ship a binary specifically for a shared library, even if it uses libtool, so it would create extra overhead when unnecessary.
Thanks again, Logan On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net>wrote: > Hello Logan, > > If this is a generic issue, IMO it should be fixed in a generic way as > suggested here [1]. > Whereas there seem to be two possibilities: either run dh_autoreconf or > patch libtool > generated files. > > Touching all source packages with a libtool/autotools build system to > introduce a new > architecture sounds suboptimal to me (especially knowing, that updating > the build system > files can lead to FTBFS too - now or in the future). Can you please jump > into the discussion > at #733045 [1] too? > > JFTR: I could imagine this generic approach: enable/run dh_autoreconf by > default and allow > package maintainers to specificly disable it using the --without switch of > dh. > > [1] *http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733045 > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733045>* > > Regards, Daniel > > *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 08. Januar 2014 um 07:51 Uhr > *Von:* "Logan Rosen" <lo...@ubuntu.com> > *An:* "Debian Bug Tracking System" <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > *Betreff:* [Debichem-devel] Bug#734559: libxc: use dh-autoreconf to fix > FTBFS on ppc64el > Package: libxc > Version: 2.0.2-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu trusty ubuntu-patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > For the ppc64el architecture in Ubuntu, since this package uses libtool, a > full > autoreconf is necessary. This is because we need new libtool macros for > ppc64el. > > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following: > > * Use dh-autoreconf to fix FTBFS on ppc64el. > > Thanks for considering the patch. > > Logan Rosen > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers trusty-updates > APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, > 'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > _______________________________________________ > Debichem-devel mailing list > debichem-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debichem-devel >
