Bug#657284: systemd: FTBFS - should Build-Depend on automake

2012-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
Package: systemd Version: 37-1 Severity: important When I try to build systemd without automake installed the build aborts with some errors related to autoconf macros. When I have installeed automake (but made no other changes to the build system) then it builds correctly. I believe that it

Bug#657284: systemd: FTBFS - should Build-Depend on automake

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 25.01.2012 10:14, Russell Coker wrote: When I try to build systemd without automake installed the build aborts with some errors related to autoconf macros. When I have installeed automake (but made no other changes to the build system) then it builds correctly. I believe that it should

Bug#657284: systemd: FTBFS - should Build-Depend on automake

2012-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: The package depends on dh-autoreconf (since we use the autoreconf dh addon). dh-autoreconf has a depends on automake | automaken. So a automake version should be installed. So I guess the thing that has happened is, that your

Bug#657284: systemd: FTBFS - should Build-Depend on automake

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 25.01.2012 11:30, Russell Coker wrote: Anyway build dependencies can be versioned, so there is no reason for a build to fail part way through because of an old version of a package. You just need a build-depends line that requires the correct version. I know that. My point actually

Bug#657284: systemd: FTBFS - should Build-Depend on automake

2012-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: I know that. My point actually was to clarify, that it is about having a versioned build-depends and not simply an explicit build-depends. According to configure.ac we require automake = 1.11. True, but AFAIK versioned depenencies on