Bug#744412: audacity: run dh-autoreconf to update config.{sub, guess} and {libtool, aclocal}.m4

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Sonntag, den 13.04.2014, 16:42 +0000 schrieb Matthias Klose:
> Package: src:audacity
> Version: 2.0.5-1
> User: debian-devel at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: autoreconf
> 
> The package fails to build on arm64 (aarch64-linux-gnu), because the
> config.{guess,sub} files are out of date, and are not updated during
> the build.  If possible, please do not update these files directly,
> but build-depend on autotools-dev instead, and use the tools provided
> by autotools-dev to update these files.
> 
>   - For dh, call dh --with autoreconf.
> 
>   - For cdbs based build systems, include
>     /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/autoreconf.mk
> 
>   - For other rules files, call dh_autoreconf before calling
>     configure (in the build or configure target), and call
>     dh_autoreconf_clean before dh_clean in the clean target.
> 
> For combining autoreconf and autotools_dev, see bug #698765.
> 
> After the build on any architecture, and before a clean, a grep for
> aarch64 in the config.sub file(s) should print some lines.
> 
> The full build log can be found at:
> http://people.debian.org/~doko/logs/arm64-20140414/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-arm64.audacity_2.0.5-1ubuntu3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt
> The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report.
> 
> Please note that these builds were done in an Ubuntu development,
> environment there may be a few false positives in these bug reports.
> 
> See https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS for a guide how to
> address these.

audacity already uses dh_autoreconf, but not everything might be
correctly updated. I made upstream changes to use automake (and not just
autoconf) in the next release. Can you test if the latest svn checkout
builds on arm64? You can grab a package from [1] and try to build it on
arm64.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~audacity-team/+archive/daily

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer