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On 2023-05-06 21:17 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2023-05-06 20:01 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> So autoreconf-dickey picks up the backup of configure.in below the .pc/
>> directory and runs aclocal.  As there is no aclocal.m4 in that
>> directory, the above warning and error about AM_LANGINFO_CODESET ensue,
>> answering the second question.  That still leaves the first one open,
>> though.
>
> Including the one below the .pc directory, there are four configure.in
> files in the source tree, and apparently autoreconf-dickey processes
> them in somewhat random order, depending on the filesystem.  I was not
> able to reproduce the error in a freshly unpacked source tree on my
> system, but the attached little script triggered it for me on a tmpfs.
> The .pc directory has the lowest inode number of all files after moving
> the others aside and copying them back, and autoreconf-dickey processed
> it last.

This looks rather unacceptable, as it might easily lead to FTBFS in
stable during bookworm's life cycle if that version were allowed to get
in.  Running autoconf-dickey rather than autoreconf-dickey, as suggested
by upstream, avoids this.  I should have a patch ready for upload later
today.

Sven

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