On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Petr Salinger wrote: > there are still packages with very outdated config.sub/config.guess. > One example is libtecla, see #621887. > > Even with correctly spelled "dh $@ --with autotools_dev", > the build fails similarly as in > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libtecla&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=1.6.1-4&stamp=1323849474 > > The workaround for libtecla have been: > override_dh_auto_clean: > dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig > dh_auto_clean > > The dh_auto_clean leads into "make distclean", > which needs updated config.sub/config.guess.
libtecla ships a Makefile which calls configure for target "distclean" and other targets. configure then proceeds to replace that Makefile in-place with something generated from Makefile.in. At this point, we're fully into the bad side of the twilight zone. You stare at whatever lies at the center of all infinity, and it will stare back at you. And I, for one, will have nothing to do with it. The bug will remain open, as I intend to check the dh helpers and its interactions with dh-autoreconf, and I might end up fixing this as a side-effect. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
