Bug#880287: gringo: FTBFS: cat: build/release.log: No such file or directory

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: gringo
Version: 5.1.0-5
Severity: serious
Tags: buster sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20171030 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[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> scons configure --build-dir=release CXX='g++-6' WITH_THREADS='posix' WITH_LUA='lua5.3' WITH_PYTHON='python2.7' CPPPATH='${["/usr/include/lua5.3","/usr/include/python2.7"]}' CXXFLAGS='${["-g","-O2","-fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=.","-fstack-protector-strong","-Wformat","-Werror=format-security","-std=c++11","-O3","-Wall","-Wdate-time","-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2","-DNDEBUG"]}' LINKFLAGS='${["-Wl,-z,relro","-Wl,-z,now"]}' || cat build/release.log build/release.py
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>   File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/SConscript", line 186
> 
>     print 'error: no usable bison version found'
> 
>                                                ^
> 
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> cat: build/release.log: No such file or directory
> CXX = 'g++-6'
> CC = 'cc'
> CXXFLAGS = '${["-g","-O2","-fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=.","-fstack-protector-strong","-Wformat","-Werror=format-security","-std=c++11","-O3","-Wall","-Wdate-time","-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2","-DNDEBUG"]}'
> CFLAGS = ['-O3', '-Wall']
> CPPPATH = '${["/usr/include/lua5.3","/usr/include/python2.7"]}'
> CPPDEFINES = {'NDEBUG': 1}
> LIBS = []
> LIBPATH = []
> LINKFLAGS = '${["-Wl,-z,relro","-Wl,-z,now"]}'
> CLINKFLAGS = []
> RPATH = []
> AR = 'ar'
> ARFLAGS = ['rc']
> RANLIB = 'ranlib'
> BISON = 'bison'
> RE2C = 're2c'
> PYTHON_CONFIG = 'python-config'
> PKG_CONFIG = 'pkg-config'
> WITH_PYTHON = 'python2.7'
> WITH_LUA = 'lua5.3'
> WITH_THREADS = 'posix'
> TESTS = ['libreify', 'libgringo', 'libclingo', 'liblp', 'clingo']
> debian/rules:60: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_configure' failed
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2017/10/30/gringo_5.1.0-5_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.