[oe] fakeroot fails to build

[Mike (mwester)]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 08:57 +0100 schrieb Koen Kooi:
>> On 25-02-09 07:53, Mike (mwester) wrote:
>>> fakeroot fails to build -- any idea how we can fix this?
>> By reverting the merge of the sane-defaults branch that got merged with 
>> zero review
> 
> Ah right, I probably didn't wait long enough. Ok, I might as well revert
> it and continue working in other branches. Is there a command to revert
> merging a whole branch or do I need to call git-revert for every
> revision?

Don't revert everything just because of one fakeroot problem -- I can
work around that by adding (another) PREFERRED_VERSION to use the older one.

This issue is not related to the sane-defaults branch at all; that was
not my point.  This type of build failure has been happening for the
past week or two on a number of recipes -- my posting the fakeroot
failure to the list was just a random selection out of the list of
similar problems.

I'd much prefer to figure out what the specific libtool issue is and fix
that, rather than revert the sane-defaults changes (and by the way, I
did review that branch and did not see anything which seemed problematic
to me, or I would have said something!)

So it sounds like there's not a libtool problem; rather I need to
upgrade to the new libtool entirely then. :-(   That's unfortunate,
really unfortunate timing -- but timing is not an OE issue. :-(

(BTW, the reason libtool got locked down for me is because it made
pkgconfig fail to build, so I might be back with questions on how to
make that work if that failure still exists.)

((Also, are there any non-angstrom distros still left in OE, besides
SlugOS?  I really feel like I'm swimming upstream all the time with OE
-- things break for me so often that just don't seem to affect anyone
else...))

-Mike