Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 pending I found my way here from the last of my packages that hasn't been built on ppc64el, which is blocked on libforms, and https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libforms&suite=sid refers to this bug. I've upgraded this bug's severity to important, since ppc64el is a possible release architecture for jessie.
x32 has actually been fixed by way of upstream updates to the build system, and the patch to autogen.sh is no longer needed, but ppc64el requires a newer config.guess/config.sub as well as an even newer libtool. There will no doubt be more of these, so dh-autoreconf remains the right answer. However, autogen.sh is essentially pointless nowadays, and moreover isn't enough for ppc64el since it fails to update config.guess/config.sub. autoreconf -fi does a better job, at least as long as you remove acinclude.m4 first (aclocal will use m4_include to include config/*.m4). The attached patch builds cleanly on ppc64el. I've prepared an NMU for libforms (versioned as 1.2.3-1.2) and uploaded it to DELAYED/5. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer. Regards, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
diff -Nru libforms-1.2.3/debian/changelog libforms-1.2.3/debian/changelog --- libforms-1.2.3/debian/changelog 2014-06-30 03:42:17.000000000 +0100 +++ libforms-1.2.3/debian/changelog 2014-10-04 06:18:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +libforms (1.2.3-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Update the build system using dh-autoreconf, in order to fix build + failure on ppc64el (thanks, Daniel Schepler; closes: #702269). + + -- Colin Watson <[email protected]> Sat, 04 Oct 2014 06:18:51 +0100 + libforms (1.2.3-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru libforms-1.2.3/debian/control libforms-1.2.3/debian/control --- libforms-1.2.3/debian/control 2014-06-30 03:41:35.000000000 +0100 +++ libforms-1.2.3/debian/control 2014-10-04 05:48:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: libs Priority: optional Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith <[email protected]> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, libxpm-dev, libjpeg-dev, libtiff-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libxext-dev, texi2html, texinfo, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-latex-base, gsfonts +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info, libxpm-dev, libjpeg-dev, libtiff-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libxext-dev, texi2html, texinfo, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-latex-base, gsfonts, dh-autoreconf Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Homepage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/ diff -Nru libforms-1.2.3/debian/rules libforms-1.2.3/debian/rules --- libforms-1.2.3/debian/rules 2010-05-19 14:07:51.000000000 +0100 +++ libforms-1.2.3/debian/rules 2014-10-04 06:18:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -6,9 +6,14 @@ export DH_OPTIONS= +autoreconf: + rm -f acinclude.m4 + autoreconf -fi + build: patch-stamp build-stamp build-stamp: dh_testdir + dh_autoreconf debian/rules -- autoreconf ./configure --prefix=/usr make (cd doc; make info pdf html) @@ -21,6 +26,7 @@ rm -f fdesign/Makefile demos/Makefile fd2ps/Makefile gl/Makefile rm -f lib/include/Makefile lib/Makefile image/Makefile Makefile rm -f build-stamp + dh_autoreconf_clean dh_clean # Build architecture-independent files here.
