Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Anyone have a suggestion about what to do when the maintainer >> can't reproduce it and the reporter can only reproduce it on one >> of his machines? I'm kind of stymied on #329333 for Autoconf. >> No idea what the problem is here. > > Well, the problem is that for some reason when he builds the package when > automake1.8 is installed, it's trying to rebuild autoconf.in. This is > done with the rule: > > $(srcdir)/autoconf.in: $(srcdir)/autoconf.as # FIXME: $(m4sh_m4f_dependencies) > $(AUTOM4SH) $(srcdir)/autoconf.as -o $@ > > which as you can see from the FIXME comment is buggy. Specifically, it's > missing a dependency on $(AUTOM4TE_CFG), so that command runs without > building the .cfg file first and then fails.
You managed to strip away all the weird behavior and find the root of the problem. Thank you so much for taking the time, Russ. This was frustrating me. I "fixed" it by deleting the Makefile rule. It shouldn't be necessary for the Debian build, because there are no Debian-specific changes to its dependencies. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
