linphone build failures

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Mar 13 12:46:34 UTC 2009


Debarshi Ray wrote:
> Linphone is having some build problems lately:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2457
> 
> Since the %changelog shows up some of your email addresses, I thought
> maybe you would have some idea about this.
> 
> Scratch builds [1] fail with:
> [...]
> config.status: creating linphone.spec
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> config.status: executing libtool commands
> config.status: executing po-directories commands
> config.status: creating po/POTFILES
> config.status: creating po/Makefile
> config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands
> config.status: error: po/Makefile.in.in was not created by intltoolize.
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.kDxWQA (%build)
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.kDxWQA (%build)
> RPM build errors:
> Child returncode was: 1
> 
> While looking at linphone.spec, I came upon the following:
> [...]
> %build

> Since regenerating the build scripts in the .spec is looked down upon,
> what is the rationale behind doing it here?
I took the liberty to clean up this package and rebuild it for FC11:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1239441

It's one of these cases, running arbitrary versions of autotools
breaks a package's configuration due to bugs in a package's auto* source 
files.

Ralf




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