Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 autoconf-dickey
Control: tags -2 - ftbfs
Control: retitle -2 autoreconf-dickey runs in all subdirectories
On 2023-05-06 16:44 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>
>> Since Autoconf 2.53 subdirectories are only processed if they are in
>> AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS or explicitly given on the command line[2], but at
>> least for now I have to make do with Autoconf 2.52.20230114.
>
> hmm - incorporating that change isn't what I had in mind.
>
> I'd just use autoconf-dickey (rather than autoreconf-dickey, in any case),
> since only the first part of this is useful:
>
> Run `autoconf' (and `autoheader', `aclocal', `automake', `autopoint'
> (formerly `gettextize'), and `libtoolize' where appropriate) repeatedly
> to remake the GNU Build System files in specified DIRECTORIES and their
> subdirectories (defaulting to `.').
Thanks for the tip, that seems to work. Actually I should run
autoconf-dickey in both the toplevel and the test/ directory, since
test/configure is used in the Debian build process, and while we are not
currently patching any files in the test directory, this might change in
the future.
Anyway, if my research on codesearch.debian.net is correct, there are
currently seven packages in the archive which invoke autoreconf-dickey
in debian/rules, so it would seem desirable to fix that command before
they trip over the same issue as I did here.
Cheers,
Sven
