Hi again list, Following up on my own post cuz I've made a few changes on how things work on Alioth, triggered by me "being stumped". I've peeked and poked in the git hooks and think I now sort of know what has been going on all this time. From here on things will be a wee bit different, though.
Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > Hi list, > > I just pushed a commit changing configure.ac and backends/Makefile.am. > Here's part of what that gave me. > > remote: *** A Makefile was modified; please ./configure && make on Alioth > remote: *** Contact sane-devel if you don't know what to do Rather than telling *you* what to do, the post-receive hook will do it for you. Unless I screwed up, of course, and within the limitations that Alioth imposes (no autoconf, no automake, no ... nothing, really, as far as autotools and gettext are concerned). > I'm clueless, hence my mail. I'm a lot less clueless now but still not omniscient, so if you have trouble pushing your changes to Alioth, please contact the list. Gory details follow. > [...] Let's try > > ./configure > > Barfs towards the end with > > configure: creating ./config.status > chmod: changing permissions of `./config.status': Operation not permitted > configure: error: write failure creating ./config.status > > Tried running make anyway. > > Generating epsonds.conf from epsonds.conf.in > /bin/bash: epsonds.conf: Permission denied > make[1]: *** [epsonds.conf] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/sane/sane-backends-lists-git/backend' > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > So apart from the lack of tools to do what *should* be done, there are > also a bunch of permission issues that make the message when pushing, > eh, well, rather useless. I've tried to work around this by liberally sprinkling `sg sane` statements in the scripts that are invoked from the post-receive hook *and* a `chmod g+w --recursive` on that checkout on Alioth (lots of "permission denied" errors there, though). Hope that helps. > The message when pushing is courtesy of the git post-receive hook. If I > rip that out, what will change for the worse, stop working or just plain > break? It'll try to run a `./config.status --recheck` for you now. Which is really just a half-assed attempt to do the right thing. The trigger for this is a change in any file that matches Makefile. That matches any of Makefile, Makefile.in, Makefile.in.in and Makefile.am. # It even matches doc/plustek/Makefile.kernel2[46]! No idea what those # are for, yet. If a Makefile.am changed, you should run automake (or let `make` do the right thing when ./configure has been run with --enable-maintainer-mode (it hasn't) but that would in turn fail because automake is missing and the `missing` script will tell you so). If a Makefile.in or Makefile.in.in changed, you *should* run autoconf. Again, if ./configure had been run with --enable-maintainer-mode it does that for you (but would fail because autoconf is also `missing`). > In the mean time, I've just run autoreconf on my debian-8-full Docker > container[1] and pushed the "fall out". > > [1] https://gitlab.com/sane-project/ci-envs > > Hmm, that triggered a pile of such messages and tried to > > remote: cd .. && make am--refresh > remote: make[1]: Entering directory > `/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/sane/sane-backends-lists-git' > remote: /bin/bash ./config.status --recheck > > failing with the same permission errors as before. All this is rather > disappointing to see and I'd like to do something about it. Clues and > suggestions very welcome. Failing any suggestions, I'll see if I can at least sort most of this *mess* out and have the post-receive hook do what's necessary insofar possible and give actionable feedback where needed. # It's not just changes to Makefile.am. Changes to configure.ac and # acinclude.m4 as well as a few other files will also require running # some tools that are *not* available on Alioth. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org