Bug#1126980: scilab: FTBFS with gettext 0.26

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:scilab
Version: 2024.1.0+dfsg1-1
Tags: forky sid ftbfs
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: gettext-0.26

Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable using gettext 0.26
(yet to be uploaded for Debian), this package failed to build.

Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/gettext/build-logs/

I've written this page to explain how to reproduce the problem:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/gettext/

This bug will be raised to important once gettext is uploaded for
experimental, and RC once gettext is uploaded for unstable, but
I still don't know when I will be able to do that. If you fix
this bug, it would help to have gettext in unstable sooner.

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:scilab, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.

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[...]
 debian/rules clean
dh clean --sourcedirectory=scilab --with bash-completion,javahelper
   dh_auto_clean -O--sourcedirectory=scilab
   dh_autoreconf_clean -O--sourcedirectory=scilab
   jh_clean -O--sourcedirectory=scilab
Duplicate specification "u=s" for option "u"
   debian/rules override_dh_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
# Removing .class and .jar files left by the build
find . -name "*.class" -delete
find . -name "*.jar" -delete
# Removing the ccache dir, under debian/
rm -rf /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/ccache
# Saving four files that dh_clean will remove, to restore the orig source tree afterwards.
for F in scilab/modules/atoms/tests/unit_tests/repositories.orig scilab/modules/cacsd/tests/unit_tests/dscr.tst.orig scilab/modules/differential_equations/src/patched_sundials/src/sunlinsol/lapackband/sunlinsol_lapackband.c.orig scilab/modules/differential_equations/src/patched_sundials/src/sunlinsol/lapackdense/sunlinsol_lapackdense.c.orig; do \
    cp $F ${F}.save ;\
done
dh_clean
# Restoring files that are modified during the build.
for F in $(find . -name "*.save"); do \
    if [ -e $F ]; then \
        mv $F ${F%.save} ;\
    fi \
done
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
 debian/rules binary
dh binary --sourcedirectory=scilab --with bash-completion,javahelper
   dh_update_autotools_config -O--sourcedirectory=scilab
   debian/rules override_dh_autoreconf
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
# First, making backups of some files that will get changed during the build.
for F in $(find . -name "Makefile.in") scilab/aclocal.m4 scilab/configure scilab/etc/Info.plist.in scilab/modules/core/includes/machine.h.in scilab/modules/core/src/cpp/banner.cpp scilab/modules/windows_tools/src/c/scilab_windows/console.c; do \
    cp $F ${F}.save ;\
done
cd scilab && autoreconf
configure.ac:1365: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
configure.ac:1366: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION' not found in library
configure.ac:95: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_RPATH
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:1446: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
configure.ac:1447: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:44: override_dh_autoreconf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:38: binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2
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