Control: tag -1 patch Martin Michlmayr <t...@hp.com> (2015-06-30): > Package: liblouis > Version: 2.6.2-1 > Severity: serious > > liblouis fails to build in unstable. > > configure checks that makeinfo is >= 5 and it looks for "^makeinfo" in > the output, but this is "texi2any" now. > > % makeinfo --version > texi2any (GNU texinfo) 6.0 > > vs: > > configure: > MAKEINFO_VERSION=`makeinfo --version | sed -ne 's/^makeinfo .* > \([0-9][0-9]*\)\.[0-9][0-9]*$/\1/p'` > > > sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.64.1 (13 Oct 2013) on m400-c3n1.hlinux.usa.hp.com > ... > > checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /bin/sed > > checking for makeinfo... yes > > checking for makeinfo version >= 5... no > > configure: error: Program 'makeinfo' version >= 5 is required. > > debian/rules:27: recipe for target 'configure-stamp' failed > > make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
Hi, The following patch does the trick. If we really want to keep the version check (we already had texinfo 5 in stable, but not in oldstable), having a versioned build-dep on texinfo should be a better idea? Mraw, KiBi.
From 251d1c16797b543c585af9d4c805b6cb0db32e36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:59:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Drop the makeinfo version check in configure.ac (Closes:
#790649).
Post-processing makeinfo's output no longer works with texinfo 6.
---
configure.ac | 13 +------------
debian/changelog | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ea4d208..3b3dfde 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -93,19 +93,8 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_HELP2MAN], [test x$HELP2MAN = xhelp2man])
# Check for makeinfo version >= 5, required for building documentation.
AC_PROG_SED
AC_CHECK_PROG([MAKEINFO_FOUND], [makeinfo], [yes])
-if test x"${MAKEINFO_FOUND}" = xyes
+if test x"${MAKEINFO_FOUND}" != xyes
then
- MAKEINFO_VERSION_REQ=5
- AC_MSG_CHECKING([for makeinfo version >= $MAKEINFO_VERSION_REQ])
- MAKEINFO_VERSION=`makeinfo --version | sed -ne 's/^makeinfo .* \([[0-9]][[0-9]]*\)\.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*$/\1/p'`
- if test x$MAKEINFO_VERSION = x -o 0$MAKEINFO_VERSION -lt $MAKEINFO_VERSION_REQ
- then
- AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
- AC_MSG_ERROR([Program 'makeinfo' version >= $MAKEINFO_VERSION_REQ is required.])
- else
- AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
- fi
-else
AC_MSG_ERROR([Missing program 'makeinfo', please install.)])
fi
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f623422..fecf507 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+liblouis (2.6.2-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Drop the makeinfo version check in configure.ac; post-processing
+ makeinfo's output no longer works with texinfo 6 (Closes: #790649).
+
+ -- Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:57:21 +0200
+
liblouis (2.6.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release.
--
2.1.4
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