[OTR-dev] Reproducible builds of pidgin-otr for Windows

[Jurre van Bergen]

On 03/20/2016 09:03 PM, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 08:57:24PM +0100, Jurre van Bergen wrote:
>>> [Well, the above and their dependencies, of course.]
>>>
>>> If you could try a bare-bones Ubuntu 14.04 Docker, plus the above
>>> packages, and let me know what happens, that would be great!
>> Now, what is interesting is this required packages list from above broke
>> my build completely. I now get:
>>
>> + cd libotr-4.1.1
>> + unset CFLAGS
>> + unset LDFLAGS
>> + ./bootstrap
>> + '[' '!' -e config ']'
>> + autoreconf -i
>> configure.ac:31: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT' not found in library
>> configure.ac:31: warning: macro 'AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT' not found in library
>> configure.ac:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT
> This means it can't find /usr/i586-mingw32msvc/share/aclocal/libgcrypt.m4.
> Aha: it's probably looking for the *native* one and failing.
>
> But that said, we shouldn't actually have to run autoreconf (or
> bootstrap) at all.  Can you try just removing "./bootstrap" from
> INSTALL.mingw and see what happens?

Will do!

>
>> David and myself are trying to debug this over an instant messaging
>> channel. No idea why this broke now and not before.
> Did you perhaps have libgcrypt20-dev installed before, but not now?

Not at all, it's a clean and super minimal ubuntu 14.04 userland. 64mb
as the base. No libgcrypt can be found.

>
>> Reproducible builds are interesting :)
> Indeed.  Thanks for helping out!

My pleasure!