[augeas-devel] Gnulib failures in Fedora Rawhide

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:40:21PM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 10:02 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 06:48:04PM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:36 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, I can easily reproduce it.  I tried building augeas from git
> > > > but failed - having some problems with lexer.c always being an
> > > > empty file - probably a missing build dep but configure didn't
> > > > report any problems
> > > >
> > >
> > > Strange. What version of flex was that using?
> >
> > It's been a while since we ran this but the version of flex was likely
> > 2.6.4.  However it hasn't changed for quite a while so I guess that's
> > not going to be the problem.
> 
> 
> That's really strange since lexer.c is generated with a pretty vanilla flex
> setup. I haven't encountered any issues with it locally (though I am still
> on flex 2.6.1)
> 
> In the hope that it may help, I updated gnulib to the latest version, and
> made a tarball. Not sure if it will help, but there's always hope ;)
> http://download.augeas.net/tmp/augeas-1.11.0-44-g0ec30142.tar.gz

Needless to say I still can't reproduce this locally :-(

However I have started a scratch build using your tarball + with the
tests enabled again:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=34101335

Rich.

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