Bug#977276: gnucobol FTCBFS: abuses AC_CHECK_FILE, uses AC_RUN_IFELSE

2024-03-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 05:18:01AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Helmut Grohne] > > The question of whether a particular version is still buggy has a > > mechanical answer. You may head over to > > https://tracker.debian.org/gnucobol and then follow the "cross" link in > > the links section

Bug#977276: gnucobol FTCBFS: abuses AC_CHECK_FILE, uses AC_RUN_IFELSE

2024-03-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Helmut Grohne] > The question of whether a particular version is still buggy has a > mechanical answer. You may head over to > https://tracker.debian.org/gnucobol and then follow the "cross" link in > the links section to https://crossqa.debian.net/src/gnucobol where you > see that it just works

Bug#977276: gnucobol FTCBFS: abuses AC_CHECK_FILE, uses AC_RUN_IFELSE

2024-03-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Helmut Grohne 2020-12-13] > Please consider applying the attached patch. This seem like a change that should be handled upstream. Did you send the patch to the upstream project already? Is it still a problem with version 5 of GNU Cobol? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

Bug#977276: gnucobol FTCBFS: abuses AC_CHECK_FILE, uses AC_RUN_IFELSE

2020-12-13 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: gnucobol Version: 4.0~early~20200606-3 Tags: patch upstream User: debian-cr...@lists.debian.org Usertags: ftcbfs gnucobol fails to cross build from source. The immediate reason is abuse of AC_CHECK_FILE. The macro should be used to check for files on the host system, but it is being used