Re: Building dpkg.git snapshots (Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4)
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> (pruned cc list)
> Hi Sedat,
>
> Sedat Dilek wrote:
>
>> I have tried to build new dpkg 1.15.8.7 from sid GIT branch [1].
>> Looks like autpoint is missing in the Build-Depends (see below P.S.).
> [...]
>> debian/rules build
>> dh_testdir
>> autoreconf -v -i
>> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>> autoreconf: running: autopoint
>> Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at
>
> Actually dpkg does not declare build-time dependencies on autoconf and
> automake, either. Something like the following is tempting, but since
> such bootstrapping requirements are not unusual when building
> development snapshots of a package, maybe it would be better to
> document it somewhere else (e.g., the Debian Reference).
>
> Thanks for reporting.
> Jonathan
> ---
> diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source
> index e69de29..9e2fd18 100644
> --- a/debian/README.source
> +++ b/debian/README.source
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +dpkg is developed in a public Git repository; see the Vcs-Git field of
> +debian/control. To build from a git checkout:
> +
> + apt-get install autoconf automake autopoint
> + autoreconf -fis
> + apt-get build-dep dpkg
> + debuild
> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
> index 2025f59..92643bc 100755
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ endif
> configure:
> dh_testdir
>
> - autoreconf -v -i
> + @echo >&2 'Missing configure script. Please run "autoreconf -i".'
> + exit 1
>
> # Configure the build tree
> build-tree/config.status: configure
>
What about using dh-autoreconf (like Michael Biebl suggested me first
for systemd builds from upstream-GIT) in debian/rules?
Had a lookinto Michael's (unofficial) systemd-v15:
[ debian/rules ]
...
%:
dh $@ --parallel --with autoreconf
...
Just proposals - you are better experts in packaging.
- Sedat -
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