[bug-gettext] Bug#754146: gettext: fix FTBFS on ppc64el with autoreconf or libtool patch (provided) (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

I received this report from the Debian bug system.

The report included two patches to choose from. One of them is a patch
to the Debian packaging so that it uses autoreconf.

The other one, which is the one I was planning to apply to Debian
gettext 0.18.3.2, updates m4/libtool.m4 and related files.

To my surprise, I've just checked and this second patch still applies
to the newly released 0.19.2, which means this has not been fixed
upstream yet.

So: Would be possible to release a gettext version using latest
libtool so that I do not need to add any special hack in the Debian
package? (Or maybe this is not even fixed in libtool yet?)

Attached the patch relative to gettext 0.19.2.

Thanks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:06:47 -0300
Subject: Bug#754146: gettext: fix FTBFS on ppc64el with autoreconf or libtool
   patch (provided)

Package: src:gettext
Version: 0.18.3.2-3
Tags: patch
User: address@hidden
Usertags: ppc64el
User: address@hidden
Usertags: autoreconf

Hi Santiago,

Either of the attached patches fix a FTBFS on ppc64el due to shared
libraries not being built (due to old libtool.m4/configure script).

Would you please consider one of them for an upload?


One is a simple patch (fixes only ppc64el). The other is a more complete
dh-autoreconf thing (fixes ppc64el and other new arches, but uses dh_,
which AFAICT the package is not using, but does build successfully).

With either of them applied, the contents of the built packages (i.e.,
dpkg-deb -c) are equivalent to those of powerpc packages (i.e., no diff
in file listings, accounting for GNU arch name difference).


Thank you,

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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center

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