[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#840974: samtools: FTBFS: configure.ac:69: error: macro PKG_CHECK_EXISTS is not defined; is a m4 file missing?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Sascha,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:17:03PM +0200, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have pushed a fix (9aac9cb) to Git, solving the FTBFS. Before doing an upload I would be very happy if an Autotools-savvy person could take another closer look because admittedly I am not really sure about the cause of the problem.

May be asking for comments on debian-mentors at l.d.o might make sense.
 
> I also had to disable a test (test_usage) that otherwise also seems to (mysteriously?) fail in my building chroot, resulting in:
> 
> pty_allocate(nonfatal): posix_openpt(): Permission denied at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
> pty_allocate(nonfatal): getpt(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
> pty_allocate(nonfatal): openpty(): No such file or directory at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
> pty_allocate(nonfatal): open(/dev/ptmx): Permission denied at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/IO/Pty.pm line 24.
> Cannot open a pty at test/test.pl line 551.

Strange as well.

I do not feel really competent here and have no spare time cycles to
have a deeper look in the next week(s).

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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