Hi Rebecca, On 08/26/2014 06:54 PM, Rebecca Palmer wrote:
Debian coin3 currently uses --with autotools_dev [0] and hence FTBFS on ppc64el [1]. This bug is not yet in the BTS.
Thanks for your interest on ppc64el. I filled #759482 w/ some debugging, partial fixes, and asking for maintainers help.
Ubuntu coin3 first tried to fix this by switching to --with autotools_dev,autoreconf , which didn't work [2]. They then also patched configure and aclocal.m4 [3], which worked, but #698765 suggests that --with autoreconf (only) is usually a better idea.
Indeed. AFAICT coin3 as-is is not quite receptive to autoreconf (at least with current versions of autotools): - it lacked simacros/cfg/m4 included in aclocal.m4 (wiped out), nor included them from configure.ac. - has some automake issues w/ library names (maybe the case for LDFLAGS = -module) - and automake confusions regarding whether libraries should be built with libtool or not. (that's what I found so far)
Should I suggest --with autoreconf, suggest the messier-but-known-to-build Ubuntu patch, or ignore it and wait for the official porters / someone who actually knows GNU auto* ?
Just --autoreconf has been reverted in the package source repo (see bug) some time ago.. So it probably needs more help here in making coin3 more friendly to autoreconf w/ current autotools versions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :) cheers, -- Mauricio Faria de Oliveira IBM Linux Technology Center -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53fdf57c.9080...@linux.vnet.ibm.com
