[augeas-devel] Gnulib failures in Fedora Rawhide

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 03:30:17PM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 8:06 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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 :-(
> >
> 
> That's no fun. I am sure you looked at that already, but the last change to
> lexer.l was this:
> https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/93e6ba2172f7188a426d11b7064685ed5a4f67d4#diff-efe9f8f7d601fffd8bedc312e8713866
> 
> I wonder if it's worth patching that out in Koji to see if that changes
> anything.
> 
> However I have started a scratch build using your tarball + with the
> > tests enabled again:
> >
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=34101335
> >
> 
> Excellent! I just released Augeas 1.12.0:
> http://download.augeas.net/augeas-1.12.0.tar.gz

Thanks, this is now available in Fedora 30 and Rawhide:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=34181243 (Rawhide)
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=34181245 (F30)

I'll issue an update for F30 once I get a complete build.

Rich.

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