Bug#623350: FTBFS: please add libbsd-dev to the build-deps

[Konstantinos Margaritis]

On 19 April 2011 18:42, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> Given the facts that
> - this package built fine in my i386 chroot which doesn't have
>  libbsd-dev installed;
> - the build log doesn't say anything about libbsd-dev;

no, but libutil.h exists only in libbsd-dev.

> - the package built fine everywhere except for armhf

yes, this is indeed strange.

> I'm a bit skeptical that the build problem on armhf is really about
> the missing libbsd-dev package, and that adding it, at least for all
> architectures, is the way to go.

I agree that it looks strange. Initially I assumed that this package was somehow
installed by default on some buildds.

> Maybe we should find out why the package looks for libutil.h only on
> armhf? Might be the package or something different in perl or whatnot

I'd gladly help find the problem if it's armhf-related.
After doing a little search it seems that I_DEFUTIL is defined, which
is needed for
setproctitle() (used in FreeBSD, so it seems that you're right that something is
different in armhf perl). I'll do a more thorough search as to
why/when I_DEFUTIL is
defined and why it is defined only on armhf.

Konstantinos