Build failure when autotools are installed (Was: Bug#362584: ITP: xindy -- a flexible indexing system)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

>> I wanted to try out myself whether there are any issues, but it fails
>> to build with 
>
> Can you send me the whole build log? Do you have automake or autoconf
> installed? I've noticed that the build process fails if they are,
> because the configure files get recreated and overwrite my changes. 

That sounds like a problem with timestamps.  

> I
> solved this with
>
> % export ACLOCAL=/bin/true AMTAR=/bin/true AUTOCONF=/bin/true \
>     AUTOHEADER=/bin/true AUTOMAKE=/bin/true MAKEINFO=/bin/true
> % dpkg-buildpackage ...
>
> but this looks more like a hack. I don't know why they get recreated and
> how to prevent this. I don't want to patch the .am files, because this is
> not needed.

I'm not a autotools wizard, but maybe someone on the list can help.  

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)