Failed builds for gzip/grep/rcs with latest gnulib revisions

[Rob Vermaas]

Hi,

since 2 days we are experiencing some errors in builds of some GNU packages (like gzip, grep, rcs). These packages are built continuously with the latest gnulib revision. 
An example can be found here: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1043400 (log available at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1043400/log)

The logs show:
./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4  ...
missing file lib/stdio-write.c
configure.ac:44: error: expected source file, required through AC_LIBSOURCES, not found
m4/gnulib-comp.m4:180: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:44: the top level
autom4te: /nix/store/ckck5bz4zsfjblp58crhr79q4ybppfrr-gnum4-1.4.15/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
.aclocal-wrapped: autom4te failed with exit status: 1

The commit that seems to cause this error: 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/diff/?id=836e0457064eb3b0b21bd2d4954cbc428a6b6277&id2=fb799692f5bb43310424977e0ca15599fc68d776

Is this intended behaviour (I suspect not, therefore this mail).

gr.
Rob

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Rob Vermaas

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