Bug#851253: bootstrap build failure: install: cannot stat 'build-deb/.libs/test-udev': No such file or directory

[Helmut Grohne]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:02:15PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Adding moreinfo without asking a question doesn't make any sense.

> We don't have a decent explanation what's going on so I'm wary of
> applying a workaround where nobody knows why it's needed.
> This smells like a bug in libtool.

I agree with all of this, but I also ran out of things to try. The most
valuable bit of information I have is that your patch broke it. Unless
you have any other things in mind, the best thing we can do is
(temporarily) revert.

Still I am very much interested in finding the real cause. Given that
you suspect libtool, I went ahead and looked at the linker invocation of
test-udev for all architectures (in bootstrap builds). With two
exceptions, all of them were storing the executable at .libs/test-udev.
The two exceptions are nios2 and sparc. (I may have missed some
architectures due to temporary failures.) Does this ring any bells?
Anything else I can try?

Helmut