Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-15 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:02 +, James Troup wrote: > > As a responsible maintainer, you are using pbuilder for preparing > > uploads anyway. This way, you don't need to uninstall gawk. > > a) don't be ridiculous, there are plenty of "responsible" ways to >maintain packages that don't i

Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-15 Thread James Troup
Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:16 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> > I still would prefer (1) or (2) since this would ensure that the same >> > awk would be used on all platforms. This would prevent potential >> > incompatibilities. >> >> (1) is right o

Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-14 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 15:16 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > I still would prefer (1) or (2) since this would ensure that the same > > awk would be used on all platforms. This would prevent potential > > incompatibilities. > > (1) is right out since it would mean that I wouldn't be able to > c

Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:10:29PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > > This suggests at least lib/ss/mk_cmds.sh.in and lib/et/compile_et.sh.in. > Don't know about a graceful solution for the other files, though. > Those are the only two shell scripts that use awk at run-time (as opposed to compile-t

Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-14 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 08:44 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 07:51:14PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > > Since the configure construction checks for gawk, then for mawk, this > > one can be solved depending on which awk version should be used on all > > platforms: > > > >

Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 07:51:14PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > Since the configure construction checks for gawk, then for mawk, this > one can be solved depending on which awk version should be used on all > platforms: > > (1) Adding "Build-Conflicts: gawk" forces mawk to be used > (2) Adding ga

Bug#299341: comerr-dev: compile_et uses gawk on i386 which isn't build-depended upon

2005-03-13 Thread Roland Stigge
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.36release-1 Severity: important Hi, I encountered that krb5 doesn't build on i386 (while it does, e.g., on sparc). The reason is that compile_et from comerr-dev is being used which is generated at build time to use a certain version of awk. On sparc, it is mawk. On