Hi Yavor,

Yavor Doganov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:02:25PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > gnustep-back-common reproducibly fails to configure after upgrade on
> > one of my systems (kfreebsd-i386) as follows.
> > 
> > Error: for some reason, argv not properly set up during GNUstep base 
> > initialization
> > xargs: mknfonts: terminated by signal 6
> 
> This is a reincarnation of #593898, when the number of arguments exceeds 
> 512.

Now that's why it somehow looked familiar! I even debugged it the same way
like back then. :-)

Strange that I didn't find that bug when googling for that error
message.

> The only way I see as a workaround is to build gnustep-base with 
> --enable-fake-main, which is already the case on a number of *BSD 
> systems.

The fix from back then doesn't help again respectively anymore?

> However, this change is ABI-incompatible so all GNUstep 
> packages must be binNMUed _again_ on kfreebsd*.  Is this acceptable for 
> the release team?

Maybe you forgot the Cc to debian-release@l.d.o in your mail...

                Regards, Axel
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