[PATCH] Force to use automake1.11 to prevent FTBFS in Trusy (LP: #1250340)

[Keng-Yu Lin]

I've found any working way at the moment. :-(

will investigate.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Colin Ian King
<colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/13 11:13, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
>> Yes, this is expected.
>>
>> This patch only works if it starts from `debian/rules`.
>>
>> You can specify the environment vars as below with autoreconf, it should work:
>>
>>   $ AUTOMAKE=automake-1.11 ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.11 autoreconf -ivf
>>
>> (have to install automake1.11 deb first.)
>>
>>
> Ah, that breaks my normal development way of working where I do:
>
> git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/hwe/fwts
> autoreconf -ivf
> ./configure
> make
>
> Is there a way of defaulting these environment vars so we don't need to
> explicitly set these when doing a non-debian build?
>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Colin Ian King
>> <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/11/13 09:45, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu at canonical.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  debian/control | 2 +-
>>>>  debian/rules   | 2 ++
>>>>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> the default automake in Ubuntu Trusty is 1.14
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
>>>> index 368e578..5bec45c 100644
>>>> --- a/debian/control
>>>> +++ b/debian/control
>>>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
>>>>  Maintainer: Firmware Testing Team <fwts-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>>  Uploaders: Colin King <colin.king at ubuntu.com>, Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu at ubuntu.com>, Alex Hung <alex.hung at canonical.com>, Chris Van Hoof <vanhoof at canonical.com>, Ivan Hu <ivan.hu at canonical.com>
>>>>  Standards-Version: 3.9.3
>>>> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autoconf, automake, libtool, libpcre3-dev (>= 7.8), libjson0-dev (>= 0.9), flex, bison, hardening-wrapper, dh-autoreconf, dkms
>>>> +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), autoconf, automake1.11, libtool, libpcre3-dev (>= 7.8), libjson0-dev (>= 0.9), flex, bison, hardening-wrapper, dh-autoreconf, dkms
>>>>
>>>>  Package: fwts
>>>>  Architecture: any
>>>> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
>>>> index 503c19d..cd95821 100755
>>>> --- a/debian/rules
>>>> +++ b/debian/rules
>>>> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>>>>  #!/usr/bin/make -f
>>>>
>>>>  export DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1
>>>> +export AUTOMAKE=automake-1.11
>>>> +export ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.11
>>>>
>>>>  DEBVERS := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | grep ^Version: | cut -d' ' -f2 \
>>>>               | cut -d- -f1)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Keng-Yu, I applied this and ran autoreconf -ivf in a clean trusty build
>>> environment and I'm getting:
>>>
>>> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
>>> configure.ac:3: installing './ar-lib'
>>> configure.ac:3: installing './compile'
>>> configure.ac:4: installing './config.guess'
>>> configure.ac:4: installing './config.sub'
>>> configure.ac:2: installing './install-sh'
>>> configure.ac:2: installing './missing'
>>> automake: warnings are treated as errors
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: warning: source file 'acpi/ac_adapter/ac_adapter.c'
>>> is in a subdirectory,
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
>>> automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility.
>>> automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the
>>> 'subdir-objects'
>>> automake: automake option hasn't been enabled.  For now, the
>>> corresponding output
>>> automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory.
>>> However,
>>> automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will
>>> automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same
>>> subdirectory
>>> automake: of the corresponding sources.
>>> automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option
>>> throughout your
>>> automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities.
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: warning: source file 'acpi/acpidump/acpidump.c' is
>>> in a subdirectory,
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: warning: source file 'acpi/acpiinfo/acpiinfo.c' is
>>> in a subdirectory,
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: warning: source file 'acpi/acpitables/acpitables.c'
>>> is in a subdirectory,
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
>>> src/Makefile.am:21: warning: source file
>>> 'acpi/apicinstance/apicinstance.c' is in a subdirectory,
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
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