Re: [bug-gsrc] Bug in compiling dico

[Jean Louis]

I was compiling it directly, not through gsrc

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:37:16AM +0100, Brandon Invergo wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 08:51 +0200, Jean Louis wrote:
> > I have already written I guess, that I have solved problem temporarily
> > by removing it. I have made notes on that, and I could use sed in a
> > script for compiling it.
> > 
> > Only that does not solve that it does not work in gsrc.
> > 
> > Jean Louis
> 
> Guys, sorry it took a while to jog my memory, but this was a semi common
> problem for packages that hadn't been updated in a while [1].  The
> problem comes from them not having updated gnulib, if I remember
> correctly.
> 
> In any case, if you look in the GSRC's Makefile for dico, you'll see
> that there's a "pre-configure" target which takes care of the problem.
> 
> So, the question is why "pre-configure" is not running for Jean Louis.
> 
> -brandon
> 
> [1] See: cpio, cssc, dico, diffutils, grub, idutils, inetutils,
> libiconv, m4, mailutils, myserver, rush, & tar (one or two of those may
> no longer be affected so this step could be removed; inetutils has seen
> some releases, so it's probably fine.)