(Dropped debian-qt-kde, added pkg-kde-talk.) * Martin Michlmayr [Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:40:40 +0200]:
> Half of KDE and a number of other applications currently fail to build > with a message similar to: > | *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. > | *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer > Before I file bugs on these packages, I wanted to check whether this > is a known problem and/or whether the new autoconf reports its version > in an incompatible way (that could be changed to avoid these build > failures). Executive summary: please do file bugs, upstream sources use a suboptimal way of checking for autotools versions, that makes them need an update for each new major version. An URL for a patch that should apply to all of the KDE ones can be found here [1]. If you could usertag the bugs them, that'd be nice (e.g. tag autoconf260-ftbfs, user [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'll also note that only packages that are configured to re-run the autotools at build time suffer this problem. To pkg-debian-talk: maybe packaging kde-common-admin and checking the viability of having packages that run Makefile.cvs at build time to build-depend on it could be a way to prevent this from happening again. [1] http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kde-common/admin/cvs.sh?rev=555946&r1=543983&r2=555946 Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Mastretta - Última vuelta en Monmeló -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
