Hi Ben, thanks for your quick reply.
Am 26.07.2015 um 02:55 schrieb Ben Pfaff: > The wrapper in the autoconf2.13 package is supposed to automatically > determine which version of Autoconf is necessary. I see a bug, however, > which makes it fail to do that correctly with gummiboot. I can fix > that, but I can't reproduce the same problem with systemd. > > With gummiboot, I just had to type "autoreconf -f -i" to get the error > reported in bug #754911. I don't see that error, though, when I do the > same with systemd (or if I run "dpkg-buildpackage"). Alban or Michael, > how do you see the problem? > > (I tested against a slightly older systemd version, 215-17+deb8u1, not > version 222-2. If there's been some important change since then, let me > know, and I'll retest.) $ apt-cache policy autoconf autoconf2.13 autoconf: Installiert: 2.69-8 Installationskandidat: 2.69-8 Versionstabelle: *** 2.69-8 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status autoconf2.13: Installiert: 2.13-63 Installationskandidat: 2.13-63 Versionstabelle: *** 2.13-63 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status systemd's debian/rules runs: intltoolize -f -c autoreconf -f -i as part of the build process. With v222, a simple autoreconf works, a "intltoolize -f -c, autoreconf -f -i" fails. That should be sufficient if you want to reproduce the issue. > It might be time to remove the autoconf2.13 wrapper, since there is so > little software that still uses Autoconf 2.13, but I'd prefer to know > more about the bug first. I think so too. Apparently the wrapper is too brittle when it's used in combination with other build tools. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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