Hi intrigeri, I have sent an e-mail to the upstream developer (Colomban Wendling < b...@herbesfolles.org>) saying to either disable the -Werror flag in configure.ac or fix the warnings listed by autoreconf's output.
Thanks, Logan On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:59 AM, intrigeri <intrig...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Logan Rosen wrote (15 Jan 2014 00:29:05 GMT) : > > For the ppc64el architecture in Ubuntu, since this package uses libtool, > a full > > autoreconf is necessary. This is because we need new libtool macros for > > ppc64el. > > > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following: > > > * Use dh-autoreconf to get new libtool macros for ppc64el. > > * Disable -Werror to fix FTBFS while autoreconfing. > > I'm happy to take the dh-autoreconf patch, but I'm not enthusiastic at > the idea of carrying a delta against upstream without any clear plan > to see it upstreamed. > > Could you please contact upstream about the -Werror thing? Once it's > applied in their Git repository, then I'm happy to temporarily > cherry-pick it into the Debian package. > > Cheers, > -- > intrigeri > | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc > | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc >
