bug#27188: lex/yacc with subdir-objects and --disable-dependency-tracking broken

2017-06-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello, Nick Brown writes: > By default Debian dh passes --disable-dependacy-tracking when building. > If the package rules also adds --builddirectory to use out of source builds > (eg. "dh $@ --builddirectory=build --parallel --with autoreconf"), and the > package happens to be using subdir-obje

bug#27186: check-TESTS has dependency on check_PROGRAMS etc

2017-06-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Nick, Nick Brown writes: > Something like:  >    ./autogen.sh  >    ./configure  >    make check-TESTS  > will fail, unless 'make check' is run before 'make check-TESTS' for  > Makefile.am snippet like:  > > check_PROGRAMS = foo  > check_SCRIPTS = run_foo_wrapper.sh  > TESTS = $(check_SCRI

bug#23602: automake does not work at all with Perl 5.26.0

2017-06-04 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Daniel, Daniel Schepler writes: > With the recent release of Perl 5.26.0, this warning has become an > error, so automake doesn't work at all on any packages. For example, > with libvncserver-0.9.11 (which doesn't provide any release tarball > with pregenerated autotools): > > ... > autor