[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#978807: esorex: ftbfs with autoconf 2.70

[Matthias Klose]

Package: src:esorex
Version: 3.13.2+dfsg-3
Severity: normal
Tags: sid bookworm
User: doko at debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-ac270

[This bug report is not targeted to the upcoming bullseye release]

The package fails to build in a test rebuild on at least amd64 with
autoconf 2.70, but succeeds to build with autoconf 2.69. The
severity of this report will be raised before the bookworm release,
so nothing has to be done for the bullseye release.

The full build log can be found at:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/09/26.ac270/esorex_3.13.2+dfsg-3_unstable_ac270.log
The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report.

To build with autoconf 2.70, please install the autoconf package from
experimental:  apt-get -t=experimental install autoconf 

[...]
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "ESO Recipe Execution Tool"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "esorex"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.13.2"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "ESO Recipe Execution Tool 3.13.2"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "cpl-help at eso.org"
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define PACKAGE "esorex"
#define VERSION "3.13.2"
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
#define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
#define LT_MODULE_EXT ".so"
#define LT_MODULE_PATH_VAR "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
#define LT_DLSEARCH_PATH "/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfakeroot:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu"
#define HAVE_LIBDL 1
#define HAVE_DLERROR 1
#define HAVE_LIBDLLOADER 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_H 1
#define HAVE_ERROR_T 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_ADD 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_APPEND 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_COUNT 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_CREATE_SEP 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_INSERT 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_NEXT 1
#define HAVE_ARGZ_STRINGIFY 1
#define HAVE_WORKING_ARGZ 1
#define HAVE_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS 1
#define HAVE_LTDL 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define HAVE_DIRENT_H 1
#define HAVE_CLOSEDIR 1
#define HAVE_OPENDIR 1
#define HAVE_READDIR 1
#define LT_LIBEXT "a"
#define LT_LIBPREFIX "lib"
#define HAVE_LIBFFI 1
#define ENABLE_PYTHON_RECIPES 1
#define HAVE_DIRENT_H 1
#define HAVE_FCNTL_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_PWD_H 1
#define HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BLKSIZE 1
#define HAVE_ST_BLKSIZE 1
#define LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK 1
#define HAVE_GETCWD 1
#define HAVE_SYMLINK 1
#define HAVE_LSTAT 1
#define HAVE_GETOPT_LONG_ONLY 1

configure: exit 2
dh_auto_configure: error: ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-option-checking --disable-silent-rules --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --runstatedir=/run --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking returned exit code 2
make: *** [debian/rules:7: build] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2