Bug 1943033

Summary:	m4: FTBFS in rawhide
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ondrej Dubaj <odubaj>
Component:	m4	Assignee:	Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ernestas, fweimer, glibc-bugzilla, martstyk, praiskup, vcrhonek
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	m4-1.4.19-1.fc35	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	1975101 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2021-06-01 09:10:21 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1975101

Description Ondrej Dubaj 2021-03-25 12:45:24 UTC

Your package fails to build with the newest upcoming autoconf-2.71, which is part of a wide Fedora change. Please see the attached copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/odubaj/autoconf-2.70/packages/. More information about testing your package when building with autoconf available here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Autoconf_271#How_To_Test

Comment 1 Vitezslav Crhonek 2021-03-29 11:08:41 UTC

This doesn't look like fail because autoconf, but because of recent change in glibc. It's already discussed at m4 upstream
mailing list and also at [1].

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20305

Comment 2 Ondrej Dubaj 2021-04-12 07:13:10 UTC

Gentle ping.

Comment 3 Ernestas Kulik 2021-04-13 09:25:58 UTC

There’s no obvious interest upstream, so maybe this should be reassigned to glibc or another bug should be created there for extra eyes.

Comment 4 Florian Weimer 2021-04-14 07:53:51 UTC

There is currently no plan to revert the glibc change. m4 has to be fixed. Thanks.

Comment 5 Vitezslav Crhonek 2021-05-10 11:20:34 UTC

(In reply to Ernestas from comment #3)
> There’s no obvious interest upstream, so maybe this should be reassigned to
> glibc or another bug should be created there for extra eyes.

Upstream has released 1.4.18b that fixes this issue (inherits the fix from gnulib).
I've created COPR repo with that release:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/vcrhonek/m4-test/

Stable 1.4.19 is going to be released later this month.