Re: --with autotools_dev,autoreconf : bad idea? (ppc64el FTBFS)
Hi Rebecca,
On 08/26/2014 06:54 PM, Rebecca Palmer wrote:
Debian coin3 currently uses --with autotools_dev [0] and hence FTBFS on
ppc64el [1]. This bug is not yet in the BTS.
Thanks for your interest on ppc64el. I filled #759482 w/ some
debugging, partial fixes, and asking for maintainers help.
Ubuntu coin3 first tried to fix this by switching to --with
autotools_dev,autoreconf , which didn't work [2]. They then also
patched configure and aclocal.m4 [3], which worked, but #698765 suggests
that --with autoreconf (only) is usually a better idea.
Indeed. AFAICT coin3 as-is is not quite receptive to autoreconf
(at least with current versions of autotools):
- it lacked simacros/cfg/m4 included in aclocal.m4 (wiped out),
nor included them from configure.ac.
- has some automake issues w/ library names (maybe the case for LDFLAGS
= -module)
- and automake confusions regarding whether libraries should be built
with libtool or not.
(that's what I found so far)
Should I suggest --with autoreconf, suggest the
messier-but-known-to-build Ubuntu patch, or ignore it and wait for the
official porters / someone who actually knows GNU auto* ?
Just --autoreconf has been reverted in the package source repo (see bug)
some time ago.. So it probably needs more help here in making coin3 more
friendly to autoreconf w/ current autotools versions. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. :)
cheers,
--
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center
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