Bug 154770

Summary:	automake 1.10 fails to build media-libs/alsa-lib
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	James <James>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo ALSA team <alsa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	James
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description James 2006-11-11 01:54:30 UTC

Please see associated bug
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=2592

This is alsa-lib from the hg repository. Not the released alsa-lib 1.0.13 that already has the automake 1.9.6 applied to it.

With automake 1.9.6, alsa-lib builds correctly.
With automake 1.10, alsa-lib fails to build with the errors as shown in the alsa-project.org bug.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-11 02:06:51 UTC

Kindly review http://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity; not to mention that alsa-lib forces automake-1.9 so it's a non-issue from users' POV.

Comment 2 James 2006-11-11 02:15:37 UTC

I don't believe I even changed the severity from the default. Is the default "blocker". The web pages displays the default as "normal" so I thought I was setting that.

I am a gentoo user. I use gentoo as my development environment for developing ALSA. This is not a non-issue to me.

automake is only used by developers. automake is not used by ebuilds themselves.
So, it is only people like me who would see this bug.

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-11 04:34:55 UTC

Uhm this is something that should be fixed upstream, not here for sure.

First of all, ebuilds _do_ use automake (and the rest of autotools), but alsa-lib forces 1.9 so we' re already covered.

About automake 1.10, we're not the one controlling it (those are redhat guys mostly), and if they decided to change behaviour, is not something we can fix.
We're also still shipping automake 1.9, and with the automake wrapper you just need to set WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.9 before starting running autotools. If you want I can provide you a patch to change hgcompile to do that, but everything else I might be doing is not Gentoo-related.

Closing UPSTREAM, I'll be monitoring that bug.