autoconf packaging error

autoconf packaging error

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi all,
There seems to be a packaging error in autoconf (autoconf2.5-2.68-1
according to cygcheck -f /usr/share/man/man1/autoconf-2.68.1.gz).
The shorter names for the man pages point to non-existent files:

 ~/workspace/TTCNv3 $ file /usr/share/man/man1/auto*
/usr/share/man/man1/autoconf-2.68.1.gz:   gzip compressed data, was
"autoconf-2.68.1", from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 15 15:47:49 2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autoconf.1.gz:        broken symbolic link to
`autoconf-2.67.1.gz'
/usr/share/man/man1/autoheader-2.68.1.gz: gzip compressed data, was
"autoheader-2.68.1", from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 15 15:47:49
2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autoheader.1.gz:      broken symbolic link to
`autoheader-2.67.1.gz'
/usr/share/man/man1/autom4te-2.68.1.gz:   gzip compressed data, was
"autom4te-2.68.1", from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 15 15:47:49 2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autom4te.1.gz:        broken symbolic link to
`autom4te-2.67.1.gz'
/usr/share/man/man1/automake-1.11.1.gz:   gzip compressed data, was
"automake-1.11.1", from Unix, last modified: Wed Dec 23 17:04:02 2009
/usr/share/man/man1/autopoint.1.gz:       gzip compressed data, was
"autopoint.1", from Unix, last modified: Sun Oct 16 08:33:56 2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autoreconf-2.68.1.gz: gzip compressed data, was
"autoreconf-2.68.1", from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 15 15:47:49
2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autoreconf.1.gz:      broken symbolic link to
`autoreconf-2.67.1.gz'
/usr/share/man/man1/autoscan-2.68.1.gz:   gzip compressed data, was
"autoscan-2.68.1", from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 15 15:47:50 2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autoscan.1.gz:        broken symbolic link to
`autoscan-2.67.1.gz'
/usr/share/man/man1/autossh.1.gz:         gzip compressed data, was
"autossh.1", from Unix, last modified: Tue Jul 15 22:35:56 2008
/usr/share/man/man1/autoupdate-2.68.1.gz: gzip compressed data, was
"autoupdate-2.68.1", from Unix, last modified: Sat Jan 15 15:47:50
2011
/usr/share/man/man1/autoupdate.1.gz:      broken symbolic link to
`autoupdate-2.67.1.gz'

The symlinks don't appear in the output of cygcheck -l autoconf2.5; I
suspect the post-install script.

Csaba
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Re: autoconf packaging error

[Charles Wilson]

On 11/15/2011 5:06 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> Hi all,
> There seems to be a packaging error in autoconf (autoconf2.5-2.68-1
> according to cygcheck -f /usr/share/man/man1/autoconf-2.68.1.gz).
> The shorter names for the man pages point to non-existent files:
>
> The symlinks don't appear in the output of cygcheck -l autoconf2.5; I
> suspect the post-install script.

Yes, there's a bug in /etc/postinstall/autoconf2.5.sh:


#!/bin/bash -e

# make unversion man pages
pushd /usr/share/man/man1 >/dev/null 2>&1
for fn in autoconf autoheader autom4te autoreconf autoscan \
         autoupdate config.guess config.sub ifnames
do
         rm -f ${fn}.1.gz 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
-       ln -fs ${fn}-2.67.1.gz ${fn}.1.gz 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
+       ln -fs ${fn}-2.68.1.gz ${fn}.1.gz 2>/dev/null || /bin/true
done
popd >/dev/null 2>&1


For now, the short term workaround is to make the indicated change, and 
re-run the script manually (perhaps in an elevated shell).

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Chuck

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