Hello, Adrian,
Thank you for reporting this, and sorry about the bug, see comment in-line
below.
On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:04:04 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at
02:49:59PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
...
- cd ovs && ./configure --enable-ssl --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
--prefix=/usr && make $(PARALLEL)
+ cd ovs && autoreconf -f -v && ./configure --enable-ssl --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr && make $(PARALLEL)
...
Not necessary now, but adding -i might be more future-proof:
--- a/debian/rules.old 2025-10-16 11:40:28.575911175 +0000
+++ b/debian/rules 2025-10-16 11:42:23.787750199 +0000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
test -f $(CURDIR)/ovs/configure || \
rm -rf $(CURDIR)/ovs && \
cp -R /usr/src/openvswitch $(CURDIR)/ovs
- cd ovs && ./configure --enable-ssl --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
--prefix=/usr && make $(PARALLEL)
+ cd ovs && autoreconf -f -i -v && ./configure --enable-ssl --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr && make $(PARALLEL)
# Configure OVN to allow building OVN VIF
./boot.sh && ./configure \
--prefix=/usr \>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 02:49:59PM +0300,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
Source: ovn
Version: 25.09.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs patch
ovn FTBFS when openvswitch was built with a different automake version,
like currently in unstable:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ovn&arch=riscv64&ver=25.09.0-2&stamp=1760582970&raw=0
...
make[2]: Entering directory '/build/reproducible-path/ovn-25.09.0/ovs'
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash
'/build/reproducible-path/ovn-25.09.0/ovs/build-aux/missing' aclocal-1.17 -I m4
/build/reproducible-path/ovn-25.09.0/ovs/build-aux/missing: line 85:
aclocal-1.17: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.17' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:3161: aclocal.m4] Error 127
This can be fixed by running autoreconf in the openvswitch sources:
I wonder how this approach would affect reproducible builds for the ovn package
though.
Do we perhaps need to do a rebuild upload of openvswitch so that
openvswitch-source is built with automake-1.18?
I guess it would also be pertinent to make the build dependency on automake
explicit to automake-1.18 at least for the ovn package if that is the solution.
WDYT?
--
Frode Nordahl>>
--- a/debian/rules.old 2025-10-16 11:40:28.575911175 +0000
+++ b/debian/rules 2025-10-16 11:42:23.787750199 +0000
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
test -f $(CURDIR)/ovs/configure || \
rm -rf $(CURDIR)/ovs && \
cp -R /usr/src/openvswitch $(CURDIR)/ovs
- cd ovs && ./configure --enable-ssl --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
--prefix=/usr && make $(PARALLEL)
+ cd ovs && autoreconf -f -v && ./configure --enable-ssl --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr && make $(PARALLEL)
# Configure OVN to allow building OVN VIF
./boot.sh && ./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
