Bug#735791: ekiga: FTBFS: configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!

[Eugen Dedu]

Control: tag -1 pending

Thank you for the info and the patch!

On 25/01/14 14:24, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Control: tag -1 patch
>
> On 2014-01-25 08:50, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> To fix the bug I had to modify an .m4 file.  The .m4 file alone is not
>> sufficient, I had to modify the configure file too.  Because autotools
>> programs changed since the time the configure file was generated, I had
>> two choices:
>> - either I manually patch the configure file with the few lines changed
>> by the modification given by the .m4 file
>> - or I regenerate the configure, but the patch will be huge.
>
> There is a third solution: use dh_autoreconf and regenerate configure at
> compile time
>
>> I used the first method.  For an unknown and mysterious reason, for the
>> two architectures it failed.
>
> Multiarch libdir detection by autoconf does not work on i386:
> host arch is i486-linux-gnu, therefore it searches in
> /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu, but multiarch libdir is /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu.
> ax_boost_base.m4 is not working correctly for Debian/i386 and needs more
> patching ...
>
>> Should I use the second solution?
>
> Wouldn't help.
>
> Patch attached.

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Eugen