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

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi all,

thanks John for the detailed explanation and the patches.

>> So the real solution here is to revert your autoconf-archive to 6dc6cc5^
>> and use that unborked ax_with_curses.m4, which will in future be bundled
>> with samtools.
> 
> This should have been 0351b06^.

I see. For now I have bundled the correct ax_with_curses.m4 with our source package (alongside ax_with_htslib.m4) and use it instead of the one in autoconf-archive until this issue gets addressed by you upstream.

>>> Cannot open a pty at test/test.pl line 551.
> 
> I've now further tweaked test/test.pl's pty setup to skip the tests instead
> of aborting with this message.  So you may wish to pull this in as a patch
> as well as fixing /dev inside your chroot :-)
> 
> https://github.com/samtools/samtools/commit/ce4a601a0859bc9ccfcf000dddf0ac77e7d576b3

Thanks. This has fixed the problem for me. Is this solution OK for everyone?

Cheers
Sascha