Re: RFS: scorched3d (fixes FTBFS #650579)
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On 12/12/2011 04:03 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
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> The package now depends on gawk, but this does not mean that
> /usr/bin/awk will be gawk as it is managed by the alternatives
> system. You need to use gawk explicitly if you need it.
Actually, the code injected by autoconf into configure and used to
generate config.status bypasses any Debian-specific stuff like the
alternatives system because it's designed to be cross-platform. If
'gawk' is present on the system and in $PATH it will be taken in
preference to mawk, nawk , or awk (in that order). That's also why
the bug(s) were tagged with "can't reproduce" until the package hit
the current unstable buildd: only if gawk is not present on the system
will mawk be used unless it's explicitly specified on the configure
command line, and most developers and older buildd chroots have gawk
installed.
I chose the most parsimonious solution for this problem. I could add
additional code to force the configure script to do what it's already
doing in a belt-and-suspenders way if you think there are advantages.
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Stephen M. Webb <stephen.webb@bregmasoft.ca>
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