On 2021-09-23 21:28, Akim Demaille wrote:
Hi Brian, [dropping bug-gnulib]
Le 23 sept. 2021 à 19:54, Brian Inglis <[email protected]> a
écrit :
Sorry Akim,
I thought it was understood as confirmed in my last message.
You might very well have, but I didn't see it. I saw a confirmation of success
of a tarball that I interpreted as referring to Bruno's testdir-thread, but
maybe you meant bison.
This month I am busy dealing with a number of maintained package upgrade build
and test failures, and at least one other appears to also be due to an obscure
gnulib upgrade, after years of upgrades with at most only the occasional
package tweak required, requiring only basic knowledge of autotools and none of
gnulib!
With each build requiring one or more hours for the package manager to configure && make
&& make VPATH install && make check locally, for each arch, then repeat for
confirmation on the CI, it takes up a lot of free time.
I sure understand this.
Your interim release includes the gnulib threadlib.m4 patch, so I had to
disable applying that, which is great.
Great. Then we have Bison 3.8.2. I'll do that this weekend.
Cygwin only needs the revert-autoconf-upgrade patch, until an experienced
autotools user adopts the autotools as maintainer and provides upgrades.
The builds and tests run completely, and only the Doxygen tests fail, although
the doc builds work: not a significant concern.
I could have a look at that. Please send the logs.
No need for you to do that, but you might want to mention the following
build/test dependency until doxygen is improved: looked at the tests and
doxygen is missing a runtime dependency requirement on epstopdf since
1.8.9 (2014-12-25)!
It was mentioned in the ChangeLog, but not in other docs.
$ fgrep -R epstopdf /usr/share/doc/doxygen/
/usr/share/doc/doxygen/html/changelog.html:<li>Bug <a
href="https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/5559";>5559</a> -
plantUML requires epstopdf for building PDF files [<a
href="https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/commit/52d216a87451c867c92
I have commented on the above issue, and requested the runtime
dependency requirement be documented, considered during configuration,
and checked during testing, as you are doing with doxygen.
I have installed the prerequisite package containing epstopdf, will add
it as a build dependency, rerun the tests again, and redo the CI builds,
just to get some clean logs!
The package containing epstopdf is an optional part of texlive called
variously things like texlive-fontutils, texlive-font-utils,
texlive-collection-fontutils, etc.
Santé!
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