Problem with configure.in, AM_PATH_GWRAP and g-wrap 1.9

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 14 November 2005 8:43 pm, David Hampton wrote:
> I believe you're referring to a different problem.

I don't think so - it is the flip side of the same bug. Before you dismiss 
this problem, please read the bug report and check the source of the original 
bug.

Look at this page:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/libdevel/libgwrap-runtime0-dev
and look at the list of files for the i386 architecture. Release 1.9.5-2 does 
not include either g-wrap-wct.h or g-wrap.m4.

Now compare with this page:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libgwrap-runtime0-dev
Release 1.9.6-3 contains (amongst the others):
usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4  
usr/include/g-wrap-wct.h 

Andreas added these files as a direct result of my bug report. They are 
transitional and we NEED to change our build so that it does NOT need either 
of these files.

> > There was no problem in g-wrap 1.9.6 source. There was no requirement for
> > an upstream release.
>
> The problem here is that g-wrap 1.3 provided the
> file /usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4 where the g-wrap 1.9 package does not.

True.

It is in libgwrap-runtime0-dev which is 1.9

/usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4

ii  libgwrap-runtime0-dev     1.9.6-3 

but only because of the concession granted to us.

> Without this file you cannot run configure.

If that were true, then - as Derek pointed out - I would still be complaining 
and I would have been unable to make any commits since the summer!

The problem is that this temporary concession will be removed in the future 
and we NEED to build without either usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4  or
usr/include/g-wrap-wct.h - these are not required for genuine g-wrap 1.9 
wrappers - as Andreas has stated - and it is up to us to fix our own code.

This is a gnucash problem and it needs fixing in G2. If not, G2's life in 
Debian will be brief.

-- 

Neil Williams
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