Bug#718893: RFS: coinutils/2.9.4-1 [ITA] -- CoinOR base library
I've uploaded my current work (without autotools fix) to the
debian-science git repo as coinutils.git. Please review.
Thanks,
Miles
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Miles Lubin <miles.lubin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Besides the obvious LT name, I've done some more digging that leads me
> to suspect that the issue is the version of libtool. I was able to
> install autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6, but libtool 1.5.22 (8 years
> old) is not available. How should we proceed at this point?
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Miles Lubin <miles.lubin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been able to address all of the lintian issues except the
>> outdated autotools files. The coinor packages use a highly nonstandard
>> autotools work flow that's not compatible with autoreconf. They script
>> they use to run autotools appears to be:
>> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/browser/stable/0.7/run_autotools.
>> I've tried to hack this script by installing the required versions of
>> autoconf and automake, changing the executable names in the script,
>> and changing the AUTOTOOLS_DIR variable from $HOME to /usr (!), but
>> I'm not able to successfully run the script. The error (at the step of
>> running autoconf) is:
>>
>> configure:323: error: possibly undefined macro: LT_LDFLAGS
>>
>> This variable is defined in CoinUtils/coin.m4. I would appreciate some
>> tips to fix this, since I'm not very familiar with autotools.
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