Thanks Colin.

Peter

Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> wrote:

> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tag -1 pending
> 
> I found my way here from the last of my packages that hasn't been built
> on ppc64el, which is blocked on libforms, and
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libforms&suite=sid refers
> to this bug.  I've upgraded this bug's severity to important, since
> ppc64el is a possible release architecture for jessie.
> 
> x32 has actually been fixed by way of upstream updates to the build
> system, and the patch to autogen.sh is no longer needed, but ppc64el
> requires a newer config.guess/config.sub as well as an even newer
> libtool.  There will no doubt be more of these, so dh-autoreconf remains
> the right answer.
> 
> However, autogen.sh is essentially pointless nowadays, and moreover
> isn't enough for ppc64el since it fails to update
> config.guess/config.sub.  autoreconf -fi does a better job, at least as
> long as you remove acinclude.m4 first (aclocal will use m4_include to
> include config/*.m4).  The attached patch builds cleanly on ppc64el.
> 
> 
> I've prepared an NMU for libforms (versioned as 1.2.3-1.2) and uploaded
> it to DELAYED/5.  Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it
> longer.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@debian.org]

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