On 2018/07/22 00:57, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 10:58:38PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > I think it's actually a problem with aclocal and junking..
> > 
> > --
> > Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
> > 
> > On 21 July 2018 21:54:14 Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 07:51:27PM +0300, Kirill Bychkov wrote:
> > >>Hi!
> > >>I've deinstalled gobject-introspection and ws able to build bitcon without
> > >>errors. and it's present in amd64 packages from Jul 19
> > >
> > >1/That's not a fix.
> > >2/That's no guarantee things work.
> > >
> > >What sthen@ describes looks like what we call a "hidden dependency".
> > >
> > >The fact bulk worked this time doesn't mean the port is fine.
> 
> 
> ... which means there is something completely wrong with using
> autogen.sh without looking more closely into it.
> 
> It might affect similar ports.

>From a quick skim of aclocal code, it looks like it may be scanning all
the m4 files in /usr/local/share/aclocal and then processing the files,
so I think this may be due to a change in files present between scan and
processing. If so, I'd expect it to affect anything using aclocal (but
the race window must be small or we'd see it more often).

naddy has mentioned having noticed a similar problem in other ports
at times.

If that's the case, we'd either need to disable junking while running
aclocal (ugh), or change aclocal to cope with disappearing files.

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