Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 src:guile-3.0
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 07:13:27PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> While bootstrap testing unstable, I noticed that guile-2.2 fails to
> build from source (natively). A build now ends quicky:
>
> | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package guile-2.2
> | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 2.2.7+1-5
> | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
> | dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Rob Browning
> <r...@defaultvalue.org>
> | dpkg-source --before-build .
> | dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
> | fakeroot debian/rules clean
> | /bin/bash: ${\#x}: bad substitution
> | debian/rules:70: *** ERROR: alternatives priority expects min version <
> 1000. Stop.
> | dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned
> exit status 2
>
> This only happens since make-dfsg/4.3-1, but I think the bug here
> ultimately is with guile-2.2. The relevant code from debian/rules is:
>
> | ifneq (ok,$(shell x='$(deb_src_min_ver)'; [ "$${\#x}" -lt 4 ] && echo ok;))
> | $(error ERROR: alternatives priority expects min version < 1000)
> | endif
>
> It is surprising that this didn't fail with earlier versions of make.
> The shell substitution is clearly wrong. It is unclear what it is
> supposed to achieve. In any case, deleting these lines makes the build
> proceed.
guile-3.0 also has this exact same bug.
Helmut
