[Pkg-electronics-devel] geda-gaf FTBFS after update to automake 1.16 ?

[أحمد المحمودي]

Hello,

  geda-gaf FTBFS on Debian, although the only chabges in geda were in 
  post{inst/rm} scripts,ie. no change in build process was done, So, I 
  compared the build logs of last successful build[1] and failing 
  build[2], and I found that the following packages got updated between 
  the two builds:
  harfhuzz, file, and automake.

  So I suspect that automake is the cause of the FTBFS, especially that 
  the failing build does this:

 Making all in scheme-api
 make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/docs/scheme-api'
 Updating ./version.texi
 make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/docs/scheme-api'

  which later caused the build failure during 'make check':

 /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build-tools/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not found
 WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
          You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
          any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.

  I currently added texinfo to build-dep to get around the FTBFS, but I 
  am not convinced with it. Can anyone come up with a better 
  fix/woraround ?

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=geda-gaf&arch=arm64&ver=1:1.8.2-9&stamp=1533223653&raw=0
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=geda-gaf&arch=arm64&ver=1:1.8.2-10&stamp=1533702749&raw=0
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