On 2006-03-25 Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > However, I don't immediately understand why the auto* tools are being > invoked by make during this build? [...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ lsdiff -z tar_1.14-2.1.diff.gz | \ egrep -v '/debian/|/src/' tar-1.14/config/config.guess tar-1.14/config/config.sub tar-1.14/po/de.po tar-1.14/configure.ac tar-1.14/doc/tar.texi You are patching configure.ac, which causes auto* to try to regenerate ./configure. Remove the patchlet and it should build fine. As you are not shipping the corresponding change to ./configure the thing is ineffictive anyway, unless you are rebuildung on a system that has the whole auto* shebang installed.[1] hth, cu andreas [1] It actually FTBFS for me, with auto* installed: cd . && /bin/bash /tmp/tar-1.14/config/missing --run aclocal-1.8 -I m4 aclocal: m4/gettext.m4: 378: macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES' not found in library aclocal: macro `jm_GLIBC21' required but not defined make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1 -- The 'Galactic Cleaning' policy undertaken by Emperor Zhark is a personal vision of the emperor's, and its inclusion in this work does not constitute tacit approval by the author or the publisher for any such projects, howsoever undertaken. (c) Jasper Ffforde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]