cdbs requires aclocal.m4 to be present in order to generate it
Bug #162015 reported by
Morten Kjeldgaard
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cdbs (Debian) |
Incomplete
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Unknown
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cdbs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cdbs
My version of cdbs is the standard for Ubuntu 7.10 (0.4.49ubuntu2). When wanting to run aclocal from cdbs, for example by setting:
DEB_AUTO_
it is required that the file aclocal.m4 is already present, otherwise aclocal does not run. I find that behaviour quite strange, because the purpose of calling aclocal is to generate that file. This piece of logic is found in the file /usr/share/
if [ -e $(DEB_SRCDIR)
I consider this a mis-behaviour if not a bug.
Changed in cdbs: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in cdbs: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in cdbs (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
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This patch changes the above described behaviour.
However, after the patch, aclocal will only be run if aclocal.m4 does not exist. If the user has changed other m4 macros, and wish to rebuild an already existing aclocal.m4, it will have to be deleted for the macro to work.
Therefore, there is no way that this macro can be brought to function intelligently.