Bug#652061: elmerfem: FTBFS missing build-dependencvy?

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mercredi 14 décembre 2011 à 11:58 -0500, Adam C Powell IV a écrit :
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 16:01 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > Package: src:elmerfem
> > Version: 6.1.0.svn.5396.dfsg-3
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: sid wheezy
> > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Your package failed to build on the buildds:
> > 
> > checking for dseupd_ in -larpack... yes
> > configure: WARNING: No parallel arpack found.
> > checking for pdneupd_ in -lparpack... no
> > checking for HYPRE_IJMatrixCreate in -lHYPRE_IJ_mv... yes
> > checking for dmumps_ in -ldmumps_scotch... yes
> > checking for umfpack_di_defaults in -lumfpack... yes
> > checking for mtc_init in -lmatc... yes
> > configure: error: The MPI version needs parpack. Disabling MPI.
> > checking for main in -lm... yes
> > make: *** [stamp-build] Error 1
> 
> Thanks for the report.  Hmm, libparpack.so is still there, but doesn't
> have this symbol.  Requires further investigation.  I should be able to
> get to it in the next day or two.
hmhm, this is likely to be my fault.
We (Debian, Scilab & Octave) released a new version of arpack (since
upstream is dead) [1]. We applied some patches from gentoo to switch to
autotools. 
It might be the cause of your issue.
Do you know which symbol is missing ?

Sylvestre
[1] http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng/