Bug#793647: systemd: missing build conflict vs autoconf2.13 - AM_COND_IF: no such condition "ARCH_IA32"

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Ben,

thanks for your quick reply.

Am 26.07.2015 um 02:55 schrieb Ben Pfaff:
> The wrapper in the autoconf2.13 package is supposed to automatically
> determine which version of Autoconf is necessary.  I see a bug, however,
> which makes it fail to do that correctly with gummiboot.  I can fix
> that, but I can't reproduce the same problem with systemd.
> 
> With gummiboot, I just had to type "autoreconf -f -i" to get the error
> reported in bug #754911.  I don't see that error, though, when I do the
> same with systemd (or if I run "dpkg-buildpackage").  Alban or Michael,
> how do you see the problem?
> 
> (I tested against a slightly older systemd version, 215-17+deb8u1, not
> version 222-2.  If there's been some important change since then, let me
> know, and I'll retest.)

$ apt-cache policy autoconf autoconf2.13
autoconf:
Installiert: 2.69-8
Installationskandidat: 2.69-8
Versionstabelle:
*** 2.69-8 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
autoconf2.13:
Installiert: 2.13-63
Installationskandidat: 2.13-63
Versionstabelle:
*** 2.13-63 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

systemd's debian/rules runs:
intltoolize -f -c
autoreconf -f -i
as part of the build process.

With v222, a simple autoreconf works, a "intltoolize -f -c, autoreconf
-f -i" fails.

That should be sufficient if you want to reproduce the issue.


> It might be time to remove the autoconf2.13 wrapper, since there is so
> little software that still uses Autoconf 2.13, but I'd prefer to know
> more about the bug first.

I think so too. Apparently the wrapper is too brittle when it's used in
combination with other build tools.


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