Bug#747773: spooles: FTBFS: error: storage size of 'TZ' isn't known

[David Suárez]

Source: spooles
Version: 2.2-10
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140510 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):
> make[5]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/ETree/src'
> makeG:30: warning: overriding recipe for target '.c.o'
> ../../Make.inc:90: warning: ignoring old recipe for target '.c.o'
> c99 -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security IO.c -o ETree_IO.o -I/usr/include/mpi
> c99 -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security basics.c -o ETree_basics.o -I/usr/include/mpi
> In file included from ../../Utilities/Utilities.h:22:0,
>                  from ../../cfiles.h:3,
>                  from ../ETree.h:4,
>                  from basics.c:3:
> basics.c: In function 'ETree_new':
> basics.c:27:24: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int' [-Wformat=]
>  ALLOCATE(etree, struct _ETree, 1) ;
>                         ^
> ../../Utilities/MM.h:37:30: note: in definition of macro 'ALLOCATE'
>                (count)*sizeof(type), __LINE__, __FILE__) ; \
>                               ^
> basics.c:27:24: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int' [-Wformat=]
>  ALLOCATE(etree, struct _ETree, 1) ;
>                         ^
> ../../Utilities/MM.h:42:35: note: in definition of macro 'ALLOCATE'
>                ptr, (count)*sizeof(type), __LINE__, __FILE__) ; } } \
>                                    ^
> basics.c:27:24: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int' [-Wformat=]
>  ALLOCATE(etree, struct _ETree, 1) ;
>                         ^
> ../../Utilities/MM.h:48:27: note: in definition of macro 'ALLOCATE'
>             (count)*sizeof(type), __LINE__, __FILE__) ; \
>                            ^
> c99 -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security compress.c -o ETree_compress.o -I/usr/include/mpi
> c99 -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security init.c -o ETree_init.o -I/usr/include/mpi
> In file included from init.c:4:0:
> ../../timings.h:5:24: error: storage size of 'TZ' isn't known
>  static struct timezone TZ ;
>                         ^
> make[5]: *** [init.o] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/05/10/spooles_2.2-10_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.