Re: [bug-gsrc] Bug in compiling dico

[Brandon Invergo]

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.)