Bug#997348: magic: FTBFS: configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: install-sh config.guess config.sub

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: magic
Version: 8.3.105+ds.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS
Tags: bookworm sid ftbfs

Hi,

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


Relevant part (hopefully):
> configure.in:1804: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
> configure.in:1804: You should run autoupdate.
> configure.in:1804: warning: AC_C_BIGENDIAN should be used with AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
>    dh_auto_configure -O--no-parallel
> 	./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
> configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: install-sh config.guess config.sub
> 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 returned exit code 1


The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2021/10/23/magic_8.3.105+ds.1-1_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!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please marking it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.