Debian Bug report logs - #659482
aclocal fails if /usr/share/aclocal does not exist

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: make: FTBFS in cowbuilder in wheezy/sid; /usr/share/aclocal not found

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:28:18 +0000

Package: make
Version: 3.81-8.1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Here is the end of the cowbuilder output:


dpkg-source: info: building make-dfsg in make-dfsg_3.81-8.1.dsc
 debian/rules build
====== making target debian/stamp/dummy-config-common [new prereqs: ]======
====== making target debian/stamp/do-pre-config-common [new prereqs: dummy-config-common]======
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/pre-config-common
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/make-dfsg-3.81'
====== making target debian/stamp/conf/make [new prereqs: ]======
WARNINGS=none autoreconf --warnings=none -f -i 
Copying file config/mkinstalldirs
aclocal: couldn't open directory `/usr/share/aclocal': No such file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/conf/make] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/make-dfsg-3.81'
make: *** [debian/stamp/do-pre-config-common] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2


The build succeeds in squeeze, so this could be a change in automake behaviour?
It works if I put automake1.10 in the build-depends.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages make depends on:
ii  libc6  2.13-24

make recommends no packages.

Versions of packages make suggests:
pn  make-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 659482@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>

To: 659482@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Reassigning #659482 to automake

Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:57:52 +0000

reassign 659482 automake 1:1.11.2-1
retitle 659482 aclocal fails if /usr/share/aclocal does not exist
tags 659482 upstream
affects 659482 make
thanks

Since automake 1.11.2, aclocal no longer succeeds if the system acdir
does not exist.  This causes Debian's 'make' package (and possibly
others?) to FTBFS under cowbuilder, because it calls autoreconf when
/usr/share/aclocal is not present.

Code removed as part of upstream commit 30f99cb:

-  if (! -d $system_includes[0])
-    {
-      # By default $(datadir)/aclocal doesn't exist.  We don't want to
-      # get an error in the case where we are searching the default
-      # directory and it hasn't been created.  (We know
-      # @system_includes has its default value if @automake_includes
-      # is not empty, because --acdir is the only way to change this.)
-      @system_includes = () if @automake_includes;

Checking @automake_includes is not appropriate any more, but I think
@system_includes should still be made empty if the default directory
does not exist.  But I'd like some input from upstream, of course.

-- 
Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>

Message #29 received at 659482@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>

To: 659482@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Debian Bug #659482: create /usr/share/aclocal in automake

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:35:35 +0000

As described in the upstream bug report, this can likely be fixed by
creating the /usr/share/aclocal directory in the automake package
(which was added to automake's install target at around the same time
the change was made).

-- 
Tim Retout <diocles@debian.org>

Message #34 received at 659482-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org>

To: 659482-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#659482: fixed in automake1.11 1:1.11.4-1

Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:47:13 +0000

Source: automake1.11
Source-Version: 1:1.11.4-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
automake1.11, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

automake1.11_1.11.4-1.debian.tar.bz2
  to main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.4-1.debian.tar.bz2
automake1.11_1.11.4-1.dsc
  to main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.4-1.dsc
automake1.11_1.11.4.orig.tar.xz
  to main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.4.orig.tar.xz
automake_1.11.4-1_all.deb
  to main/a/automake1.11/automake_1.11.4-1_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 659482@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> (supplier of updated automake1.11 package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:48:37 -0400
Source: automake1.11
Binary: automake
Architecture: source all
Version: 1:1.11.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org>
Changed-By: Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org>
Description: 
 automake   - Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
Closes: 659482
Changes: 
 automake1.11 (1:1.11.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * debian/automake.dirs: Add /usr/share/aclocal since aclocal expects it
     to exist. (Closes: #659482)
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