[pacman-dev] Build issues with the maint branch of pacman

[Allan McRae]

Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
>>> <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
>>>>> <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>   Yes they are installed. (I've reinstalled them to the same outcome.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I failed to see which commands you ran.
>>>>>
>>>>> What if you run autogen.sh ?
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>   Well this time (with `./autogen.sh`) it worked without even a
>>>> warning. Just displayed:
>>>>
>>>> ~~~~
>>>> $ ./autogen.sh
>>>>
>>>> + aclocal
>>>> + autoheader
>>>> + automake --foreign
>>>> + autoconf
>>>> ~~~~
>>>>
>>>>   (Any idea why?)
>>>>
>>>>   Thanks,
>>>>   Ciprian.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>    Now it fails during build by not finding the `a2x` application...
>>> Any missing dependency? (I'm using the PKGBUILD recepie from ABS, but
>>> for the 3.3.2 version, not 3.3.1.)
>>>
>>>       
>> If you posted the actual build output it might be helpful....  you probably
>> need to install asciidoc or use --disable-docs on configrue.
>>     
>
>     Thanks, it builds now.
>
>     Thus the problem was that inside the PKGBUILD for pacman, asciidoc
> was not specified as a make-dependency. After adding it there (and
> installing it), everything was completed successfully.
>   

It is not needed for building for the release tarballs.  Hence it is not 
in the PKGBUILD.

Allan