❦ 19 novembre 2018 09:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>:
> | Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Our build system may be broken: /bin vs > /usr/bin"): > | > tl;dr: We may be messing up /bin and /usr/bin on some platforms > | > | This is the result of the change of the buildds to have `usrmerge', ie > | merged /bin and /usr/bin. I think this shows that this change is > | generating RC bugs in packages, and should be reverted. > > That was very much my gut feel but I am a little removed from the more core > moving and shaking and I didn't know what changed recently. > > FWIW GNU R is an rather obsessively clean user of to the autotools stack, so > I would agree that it failing here is a good-enough proof for having to > possibly revisiting things in our stack. I would expect much more breakage to > follow. I am maintaining a piece of software using autotools and each time I let slip a path computed at build time, I have bug reports from a handful of embedded distributions (OpenWRT, buildroot, ...) telling me it breaks with them. So, it's not something unique to Debian. -- Use library functions. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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