Bug#727174: pango1.0 FTBFS with glib2.0 (>= 2.37.2), G_TEST_SRCDIR undefined

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Oct 23 11:37:14 UTC 2013


severity 727174 important
thanks

Am 23.10.2013 03:10, schrieb Steve Langasek:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The pango1.0 package in unstable fails to build from source with the version
> of glib2.0 in experimental, because with newer glib2.0 pango makes use of a
> new API called "g_test_get_filename" which relies on G_TEST_SRCDIR being set
> in the environment - but nothing in the build system is setting this. 
> Perhaps this is expected to be set by a newer version of automake/autoconf
> rules bundled with glib, and the pango tarball was built without a new
> enough version?  I'm not sure; in any case, I've worked around this in
> Ubuntu by just setting G_TEST_SRCDIR to the correct value to let the package
> build.


Thanks for the bug report, Steve.

Since this issue doesn't affect the debian package (yet) and it builds
just fine, I'm downgrading the severity to not make it block the testing
migration.

Regards,
Michael



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