On 2016-07-25 18:45 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: found -1 1:0.99.19-5 >
> > The configure script tries to run "ncurses5-config --terminfo", and if
> > this does not succeed, uses a hardcoded list of terminfo directories
> > which unfortunately does not include the directories /etc/terminfo and
> > /lib/terminfo which we ship in ncurses-base. Failing to find a terminfo
> > directory, it then concludes that the system must be using termcap and
> > adds "-ltermcap" to the linker line which fails.
> >
> > I will work around that by shipping an /usr/share/terminfo directory in
> > ncurses-base, but jed might still FTBFS on the buildds until they
> > upgrade their base system.
>
> I have re-opened the bug, since removing the /usr/share/terminfo
> directory from the build system still triggers the FTBFS bug, and maybe
> we want to drop the empty directory from ncurses-base at some point in
> the future.
> > Properly fixing this bug requires patching the buggy test in
> > autoconf/aclocal.m4 and regenerating configure, but since jed does not
> > currently build-depend on autoconf and uses dpatch which I haven't used
> > for years I can't really come up with a patch.
>
> I have tried the attached patch, but unfortunately the build broke:
>
> ,----
> | dh_testdir
> | #
> | # --- MAKE ---
> | #
> | /usr/bin/make DL_LIB="" OTHERLIBS=-lutil XRENDERFONTLIBS=-lXft jed # getmail
> | make[1]: Entering directory '/build/jed-0.99.19'
> | cd autoconf && autoconf && mv ./configure ..
> | Makefile is older than the configure script.
> | Please re-run the configure script.
> | Makefile:18: recipe for target 'Makefile' failed
> | make[1]: *** [Makefile] Error 1
> | make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/jed-0.99.19'
> | debian/rules:72: recipe for target 'build-stamp' failed
> `----
>
> Apparently there's something fishy with the build system, I don't know
> whether it's related to debian/rules or if it is an upstream bug.
OK. I wasn't sure whether this bug was actually fixed by my changes. I
hoped that updating with autoreconf would make it go away (and it
worked for me in a fresh chroot). I admit I didn't check the details
very hard. So that for doing that.
I'll look at the autofoo and try and work out what the correct fix
is. My main problem is that I don't really understand how the terminfo
libraries are used.
> Anyway, thanks for switching away from dpatch!
Yeah, that makes everyone's lives a little easier. It turned out to be
easy when I got round to it, as the only 'non-patch' dpatch patch was
doing config.{sub,guess} updates, and I know how to do that properly
using other mechanisms (modulo failing to actually get it right on
first attempt :-)
Wookey
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