On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:46:49AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > * /usr/lib/*/pari/pari.cfg and /usr/include/*/pari/paricfg.h contain > absolute paths /usr/bin/gzip, /usr/bin/zcat > * If pari invokes those commands (I assume it does, but I haven't actually > checked) then it will not work on non-merged-/usr systems, where > /bin/gzip and /bin/zcat exist, but /usr/bin/gzip and /usr/bin/zcat do not
Hello Simon, Is not merged system supposed to have a /usr -> / symlink ? > A merged-/usr system can be obtained by installing with > debootstrap >= 1.0.102 or debootstrap --merged-usr, or by installing the > usrmerge package. A non-merged-/usr system can be obtained by installing > with debootstrap --no-merged-usr (or upgrading from an older release) and > not installing usrmerge. > > Recent tests on tests.reproducible-builds.org use unmerged /usr for the > first build and merged /usr for the second, as a way to detect some > issues in this class. > > Because pari doesn't use Autoconf, there isn't a straightforward way > to fix this bug with configure arguments like > "GZIP=/bin/gzip ZCAT=/bin/zcat". Patching Configure, config/locate > and/or config/paricfg.h.SH is probably easiest. I think the better fix would be to replace the absolute path by a relative path (i.e.just ZCAT="gzip -dc"). Thanks for your bugreport, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
