Bug#786694: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#786694: rcs and fftw fail to build with "makeinfo: command not found"

[Reiner Herrmann]

On 05/24/2015 03:40 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> /tmp/buildd/fftw-2.1.5/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not found
> WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
>    [...]
> Makefile:370: recipe for target 'fftw.info' failed
> make[2]: *** [fftw.info] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/buildd/fftw-2
> 

I think this could be related to an issue we already faced with automake [1][2].
Depending on the timezone, .info files are sometimes not (re)generated from source (example [3]).
This could explain why it doesn't happen in your local setup, when you are not varying
the timezone (the .info files are not regenerated with makeinfo), but on jenkins it does.

Regards,
 Reiner

[1]: https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/unstable/timezone_variance_because_of_automake_mdate_issue.html
[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimezoneVarianceBecauseOfAutomakeMdate
[3]: https://reproducible.debian.net/dbd/unstable/amd64/teseq_1.1-0.1.debbindiff.html

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