Package: nmh
Version: 1.1-release-3
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source
Summary: There is an intermediate build file sbr/dtimep.c included in
the source package, which should be removed. Also, the rule to
generate this file in sbr/Makefile.in should be changed from
dtimep.c: dtimep.lex
$(LEX) -nt $< > $@
to
dtimep.c: dtimep.lex
$(LEX) -o $@ $<
This fixes two problems:
* flex 2.5.31-31 (the version of sarge) treats '-n' as a no-op option,
but treats the following 't' as an argument, which is not allowed;
* by using '-o $@' instead of '-t > $@', we avoid creating an empty
file when the flex invocation fails, which could cause a future 'make'
to try to use the now-empty dtimep.c.
This issue is masked when unpacking the source archive onto a
filesystem like ext3 which doesn't store fractional timestamps. The
files sbr/dtimep.c and sbr/dtimep.lex in the archive have timestamps
of 2003-10-24 20:17:23.671432146 and 2003-10-24 20:17:23.825410320
respectively, so when unpacked onto an ext3 filesystem, the timestamps
become equal and make doesn't try to rebuild sbr/dtimep.c. But when a
filesystem which stores fractional-second timestamps (such as AFS) is
used sbr/dtimep.c becomes older than sbr/dtimep.lex and thus make
does try to rebuild it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages nmh depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii liblockfile1 1.06 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1.5 Authentication abstraction library
ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system
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