On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Len Sorensen wrote: > > Well, this is still an irritating bug. The package is supposed to > > build even on an unclean environment (at least with auto* for elinks, > > this holds). A patch for this would be welcome; I'll try to look at > > it and create one. > > Wouldn't something as simple as 'Build-Conflict: automake autoconf' do it? > Perhaps not the most elegant, but certainly too the point. > > After all some people have automake on their system and would try to > build things that don't like a particular version of automake, so packages > sometimes conflict. Build-conflicts would be nice to avoid, but at > least until a better solution is found, it would be better than nothing > and avoid more bugs being reported.
No, this is, by no means, the solution. The blame lies squarely with the patch 06_551238_SMJS-FTBFS.diff, which uses the get_opt_int macro incorrectly. Build conflicting on auto* is, IMHO, a bad workaround. Investigating the get_opt_int is the right solution to the problem. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
