Your message dated Sun, 3 Jan 2016 09:43:57 -0800 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug #107440: no longer relevant has caused the Debian Bug report #107440, regarding autoconf: autoconf-wrapper does not check aclocal.m4 and acsite.m4 to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: autoconf Version: 2.52-1 Severity: important The autoconf-wrapper, which is used to determine the appropriate version of autoconf to execute, does not consult aclocal.m4 and acsite.m4 when forming its decision. The script should check these files as well. However, I would suggest that the current method of checking for AC_PREREQ in autoconf-wrapper is too simplistic. For instance, it does not deal with calls to AC_PREREQ inside macros that are never used (and hence the PREREQ is not required). Instead, perhaps autoconf itself should be used to do this dependancy checking. A call like "autoconf2.13 ${wrapper_args} -o - > /dev/null" will fail with a fatal error if the dependancy is not met. This also implicity checks aclocal.m4 and acsite.m4. This bug is important, because it causes obscure build failures of code that should work correctly (for instance because libtool 1.4b is installed, which depends upon autoconf 2.50 as it installs macros requiring autoconf 2.50 into aclocal.m4, yet the wrapper will incorrectly run autoconf 2.13 regardless). Chris Leishman -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable
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--- Begin Message ---This bug report is about the wrapper script in older versions of autoconf2.13. The wrapper script is gone now, so it can't have any bugs ;-) Therefore I'm closing the bug report. If you disagree, please reopen this bug (with an explanation). Thanks, Ben.
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