Hi Yifan, Thanks very much for this advice. On a second thought, this issue potentially affects an amount of packages on Leap 42.2. So cross-posting to opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org. Thanks, Felix On 2017/3/7 11:36, Yifan Jiang wrote:
Hi Felix,
I guess "research" is also a good place to append the question, making it visible to OBS and toolchain guys :-)
- Yifan
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:20:10PM +0800, Felix Zhang wrote:
Hi all,
I noticed that the autotools files in our GNOME packages are generated by autotools 1.15. As I didn't find these files included in the upstream repos. I guess they come from openSUSE:Factory at the time we constructed SLE12-SP2 and Leap 42.2.
However, on SP2 and 42.2 we kept autotools 1.13 from updating to 1.15.
This mismatch hit me when I was trying to backport CVE patches for gtk-vnc (bsc#1024266, bsc#1024268) which have modifications on a Makefile.am thus automake is required to regenerate Makefile.in - a build time error complained that automake-1.15 is not found:
https://build.suse.de/package/live_build_log/home:zhangxiaofei:branches:Deve...
I understand there must be good reasons not updating autotools. So my question is, what's a good way to get around such failures please?
Thanks very much in advance for your tips. :-)
Best regards,
Felix