[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724221: gentle: FTBFS: configure.in:24: error: required file './compile' not found

[David Suárez]

Source: gentle
Version: 1.9+cvs20100605+dfsg1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130922 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
>  debian/rules build
> dh_testdir
> echo "configuring with own configure!"
> configuring with own configure!
> aclocal
> aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> automake
> automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> configure.in:16: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated.  For more info, see:
> configure.in:16: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
> configure.in:24: error: required file './compile' not found
> configure.in:24:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
> automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/09/22/gentle_1.9+cvs20100605+dfsg1-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.