Re: new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 7:23 AM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I was able to work around the EGREP_TRADITIONAL issue by reordering
> macros. The issue is conditional code blocks which mean
> EGREP_TRADITIONAL was not set in some configure option combinations
> leading to obtuse failures.
>
> Our testing so far shows the following three sets of issues.
>
>
> Macro ordering issues with EGREP_TRADITIONAL being unset:
>
> apr 1.7.2
> libarchive 3.6.2
>
>
> Ship with an older gnulib largefile.m4 which breaks with autoconf
> 2.72c:
>
> parted 3.5
> man-db 2.11.2
> libpipeline 1.5.7
> gzip 1.12
> findutils 4.9.0
> bison 3.8.2
> gettext 0.21.1
> coreutils 9.1
> wget 1.21.3
>
> On x32 were seeing two recipes which configure "ok" but fail at compile
> time:
>
> gpgme 1.18.0
> mpg123 1.31.2
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/57/builds/6771/steps/11/logs/stdio
>
>
> Now that things are roughly building, we should get some better
> automated runtime testing results in a few hours.

Wow. Thank you for the thorough mass-testing and analysis.