Bug#881915: libidn FTBFS with gtk-doc-tools 1.26: gtkdoc-mktmpl is no longer available

[Tim Rühsen]

On 11/23/2017 03:37 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:32:06AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> It looks as though plain gtkdocize replaces gtk-doc.make with a symbolic
>> link, which dh-autoreconf won't delete (bug filed), breaking the ability
>> to build twice in a row; so gtkdocize --copy (which works like I expected)
>> is probably better, at least until/unless dh-autoreconf can be taught
>> to remove files that were replaced with a symlink. I've changed flatpak
>> in git to use gtkdocize --copy.
> 
> Thank you for your attention to detail.
> 
>> Helmut: similarly, is there a reason that I'm not seeing why explicitly
>> removing gtk-doc.make before gtkdocize was necessary, or were you only
>> doing that as a way to be completely sure that the old one wasn't used, or
>> was it a workaround for gtkdocize turning the plain file into a symlink?
> 
> I was under the impression that my first attempt was just running
> gtkdocize without removing gtk-doc.make and that didn't work. I might be
> wrong here.
> 
> Call me careless, but I am a bit annoyed by libidn2 now, as it keeps
> breaking in new ways. I was in need of a patch to make bootstrap builds
> proceed, so I only looked as far as making it barely build. The bug is
> supposedly fixed upstream, so I expected it to be fixed with a new
> upstream release rather than applying my patch.


If it helps, I can make up a new upstream release.
Let me know if there is something that should be applied before.


With Best Regards, Tim

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