Bug#713277: v-sim: FTBFS: /bin/bash: --configdir: command not found

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: v-sim
Version: 3.6.0-2
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130620 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
> make[5]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/plug-ins/python-gi'
> /bin/bash ../../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include   -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/harfbuzz   Usage: /usr/bin/python-config --prefix|--exec-prefix|--includes|--libs|--cflags|--ldflags|--extension-suffix|--help|--configdir  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -D'VISU_TYPELIBS_DIR="/usr/lib/girepository-1.0"' -D'VISU_EXEC_DIR="/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0"' -Wno-long-long -Wno-strict-prototypes -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wall -W -ansi -c -o pythongi.lo pythongi.c
> /bin/bash: --includes: command not found
> /bin/bash: --exec-prefix: command not found
> /bin/bash: --libs: command not found
> /bin/bash: --cflags: command not found
> /bin/bash: --ldflags: command not found
> /bin/bash: --extension-suffix: command not found
> /bin/bash: --help: command not found
> /bin/bash: --configdir: command not found
> libtool: compile: cannot determine name of library object from `--prefix'
> make[5]: *** [pythongi.lo] Error 127

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/06/20/v-sim_3.6.0-2_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.