[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#648762: Please update MIRA to autoconf 2.68 or superior.

[Charles Plessy]

Dear Bastien,

we are distributing Mira in Debian and got a report from our Ubuntu friends
that Mira 3.4.0 needs to be patched in order to be linked with ‘--as-needed’.
This patch can be avoided if you use autoconf 2.68 or superior in your next
release.  Can you consider that upgrade ?

See below for more technical discussion.

Have a nice day,

-- Charles Plessy, Debian Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Le Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Michael Terry a écrit :
> Upstream is using the macro AX_LIB_EXPAT.  They need to generate
> their next tarball using a newer version of autoconf-archive, at
> least version 2011.03.17 [1], which includes a fix for this [2].
> And then they need to make sure to switch to using EXPAT_LIBS
> instead of EXPAT_LDFLAGS (since the macro changed which variable it
> defines).
> 
> My patch is just a minimally-invasive workaround until they they do
> that.
> 
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/info-gnu%40gnu.org/msg01160.html
> [2] http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7489