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

[Steve Langasek]

Control: severity 727174 serious

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 23.10.2013 03:10, schrieb Steve Langasek:

> > 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,

It does affect the package, in experimental.

> I'm downgrading the severity to not make it block the testing
> migration.

The 'experimental' tag was already set so that this would not affect testing
migration.

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