Bug#793647: systemd: missing build conflict vs autoconf2.13 - AM_COND_IF: no such condition "ARCH_IA32"

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.07.2015 um 23:45 schrieb Alban Browaeys:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 222-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Building systemd from package source, on arm 32 bits, I get :
> configure.ac:1135: error: AM_COND_IF: no such condition "ARCH_IA32"
> /usr/share/aclocal-1.15/cond-if.m4:23: AM_COND_IF is expanded from...
> configure.ac:1135: the top level
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> debian/rules:257: recipe for target 'autoreconf' failed
> make[2]: *** [autoreconf] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/prahal/Projects/Admin/systemd-222'
> dh_autoreconf: debian/rules autoreconf returned exit code 2
> debian/rules:261: recipe for target 'override_dh_autoreconf' failed
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_autoreconf] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/prahal/Projects/Admin/systemd-222'
> debian/rules:281: recipe for target 'build' failed
> make: *** [build] Error 2
> 
> 
>>From similar issue against gummiboot :
>  https:bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754911 
> there is a missing conflict with autoconf2.13.

I'm not convinced this makes sense.
My gut feeling is, that we have several thousand source packages which
have AC_PREREQ([>2.50]) in the archive and many packages nowadays run
autoreconf during build [1]. Adding a Build-Conflicts against
autconf2.13 to all of those packages seems like busy work without real gain.

I think, autoconf2.13 should stop diverting /usr/bin/autoconf and
related binaries (autoheader, autoreconf).
dak finds only 14 packages which require autoconf2.13. It makes much
more sense to me, if those packages are updated to call
/usr/bin/autoconf2.13 directly.

CCed the autoconf2.13 maintainer for their input.

Michael

[1] dak finds ~800 packages build-depending directly on autoconf and
2600 depending on dh-autoreconf.
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