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Hi all, |
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Not sure if you know but we're currently experiencing a spur of build |
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failures related to eautoreconf (in particular, eaclocal) and |
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libtool-2.4 The new libtool release only works with automake 1.9 and |
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later. [1] |
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In this situation, the proper way to tackle the issue is to make sure |
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the build system is updated to something more recent and can be built |
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with automake 1.11 (which is the current version). Since automake tends |
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to be pretty conservative, this often enough it's just a matter of |
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dropping WANT_AUTOMAKE, at worst to play a bit with the build system to |
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stop using deprecated/removed features. It's something I can do quite |
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quickly, so between last night and today I fixed a few packages. |
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Before you start to wonder, yes I did fix packages that I don't |
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maintain; yes I have tested that the results are good for each of them. |
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I did so on the count that a) I'm part of QA so making sure the tree |
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builds is my duty and b) half the time the autotools-related problems |
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are redirected back to me for a simple matter of experience. |
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I'm currently running test on another list of 83 packages using various |
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versions of automake… I'm planning on tackling all the failing ones just |
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as I did up to now in the next couple of days. |
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But since we're really hitting a number of issues related to this, I'm |
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currently wondering if it wouldn't make much more sense to simply |
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package.mask all the previous versions of automake. They should still be |
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available, as they might be required for upstream work/test, but they |
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shouldn't be depended upon, or brought in on users systems. |
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If we have to go down that route, we're going to need to "fix what's not |
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broken" by ensuring that also the packages not using libtool-2.4 won't |
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use the older versions. As you might guess, I'm volunteering to do the |
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conversion myself, it's probably going to take me less time that it'd |
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take to explain and get someone else to do it. |
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Doubts? Comments? |
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[1] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/12/01/the-automake-and-libtool-clash |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes” |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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