Bug#978867: mpich: ftbfs with autoconf 2.70

[Matthias Klose]

Package: src:mpich
Version: 3.4~a2+really3.3.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid bookworm
User: doko at debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-ac270

[This bug report is not targeted to the upcoming bullseye release]

The package fails to build in a test rebuild on at least amd64 with
autoconf 2.70, but succeeds to build with autoconf 2.69. The
severity of this report will be raised before the bookworm release,
so nothing has to be done for the bullseye release.

The full build log can be found at:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/09/26.ac270/mpich_3.4~a2+really3.3.2-2_unstable_ac270.log
The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report.

To build with autoconf 2.70, please install the autoconf package from
experimental:  apt-get -t=experimental install autoconf 

[...]
target_alias=''
target_cpu='x86_64'
target_os='linux-gnu'
target_vendor='pc'
ucxdir=''
ucxlib=''
use_embedded_hwloc_FALSE=''
use_embedded_hwloc_TRUE=''
with_libfabric='yes'
zmlib=''
zmlibdir=''
zmsrcdir=''

## ------------------- ##
## File substitutions. ##
## ------------------- ##

cc_shlib_conf=''
cxx_shlib_conf=''
f77_shlib_conf=''
fc_shlib_conf=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "MPICH"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "mpich"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.3.2"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "MPICH 3.3.2"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "discuss at mpich.org"
#define PACKAGE_URL "http://www.mpich.org/"
#define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
#define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
#define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
#define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
#define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
#define STDC_HEADERS 1
#define __EXTENSIONS__ 1
#define _ALL_SOURCE 1
#define _DARWIN_C_SOURCE 1
#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
#define _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 1
#define __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_ATTRIBS_EXT__ 1
#define __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__ 1
#define __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_DFP_EXT__ 1
#define __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__ 1
#define __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__ 1
#define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__ 1
#define __STDC_WANT_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ 1
#define _TANDEM_SOURCE 1
#define PACKAGE "mpich"
#define VERSION "3.3.2"
#define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
#define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
#define HAVE_ERROR_CHECKING MPID_ERROR_LEVEL_ALL
#define MPICH_ERROR_MSG_LEVEL MPICH_ERROR_MSG__ALL
#define HAVE_TAG_ERROR_BITS 1
#define USE_LOGGING MPICH_LOGGING__NONE

configure: exit 1
dh_auto_configure: error: ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-option-checking --disable-silent-rules --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --runstatedir=/run --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --with-libfabric --enable-shared --prefix=/usr --enable-fortran=all --disable-rpath --disable-wrapper-rpath --sysconfdir=/etc/mpich --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --includedir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/mpich --docdir=/usr/share/doc/mpich CPPFLAGS= CFLAGS= CXXFLAGS= "FFLAGS=-O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong  -fallow-invalid-boz -fallow-argument-mismatch" "FCFLAGS=-O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong  -fallow-invalid-boz -fallow-argument-mismatch" BASH_SHELL=/bin/bash returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:83: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:70: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2