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

[Ciprian Dorin, Craciun]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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

    But then why does it fail when building it from PKGBUILD? (I've
used an unmodified version of PKGBUILD from ABS (for version 3.3.1),
with the soure code from 3.3.2.)