[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#518735: Bug#518735: ace: FTBFS: autotools error

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> > The attached patch fixes this.  However, ace still FTBFS due to some
>> > autoconf2.64 in the AC_COMPILE_IFELSE() function in
>> > AC_CHECK_FUNC(getpwnam_r) in ACE_wrappers/configure.ac:
>> >
>> > checking for bsearch... yes
>> > ../ACE_wrappers/configure: line 37527: syntax error near unexpected
>> > token `fi'
>> > ../ACE_wrappers/configure: line 37527: `fi'
>> > make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 2
>> > dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>>
>> This seems to be a bug in MPC, probably due to bashisms.
>>
>> I already have a patch for this (and it was discussed in
>> pkg-ace-devel, ace-users and probably ace-devel too) a few weeks ago.
>
> I don't see any discussion beyond what is in the bug report on
> pkg-ace-devel in the last few months, can you point me to the message,
> please?

Thomas finding the 'fidone':

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.ace/browse_thread/thread/8d23fecce3ab039d/ec58fdc95364fdaf?lnk=gst#ec58fdc95364fdaf

My reply:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.ace/browse_thread/thread/8d23fecce3ab039d/d535aaaddfe36e95?lnk=gst#d535aaaddfe36e95

Yeah, it's not in pkg-ace-devel but the general ace-users mailing list.


>> Once more: please join pkg-ace-devel if you want to help. You are
>> providing patches we already have.
>
> I only want to see the release critical bug fixed for now, I am not
> interested in general ace maintainance, sorry.

:-( but still thanks :-)

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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