Bug#742417: bls tag for configure syntax errors

[Evgeni Golov <evgeni@debian.org>]

Package: qa.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Those errors might look like this in the build log:

    checking for idna_to_ascii_from_locale... no
    ../configure: line 12285: test: =: unary operator expected

This usually means that there is a syntax error in the configure script
but the execution could be completed. Syntax errors can lead to
unexpected configuration results.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

>From 61ad4cbfd38fd69b6f222f3d378405cd2d6ff299 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evgeni Golov <evgeni@golov.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:34:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add bls tag for configure syntax errors

Those errors might look like this in the build log:

     checking for idna_to_ascii_from_locale... no
     ../configure: line 12285: test: =: unary operator expected

This usually means that there is a syntax error in the configure script
but the execution could be completed. Syntax errors can lead to
unexpected configuration results.
---
 data/bls/descriptions/X-configure-syntax-error.description | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 data/bls/descriptions/X-configure-syntax-error.description

diff --git a/data/bls/descriptions/X-configure-syntax-error.description b/data/bls/descriptions/X-configure-syntax-error.description
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7df52f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/bls/descriptions/X-configure-syntax-error.description
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+## Match: regexp:.*configure: line [0-9]\+:
+This is an experimental tag. It needs review and a better description.
+<br>
+The build log contains a message from <tt>configure</tt> starting with
+<pre>
+configure: line X:
+</pre>
+<br>
+This message usually means that there is a syntax error in the configure
+script, but the execution could be completed. Syntax errors can lead to
+unexpected configuration results.
+<br>
+If you have more information for this description or want it escalated
+to warning or error, please let me know.
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