Bug#1139540: p4est: FTBFS: configure: error: MPI C test failed

Tue Jun 9 11:50:34 BST 2026

Package: src:p4est
Version: 2.3.6-2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs forky sid

Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, 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/build-logs/202606/

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:p4est, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.

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[...]
 debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_clean
 debian/rules binary
dh binary
   dh_update_autotools_config
   debian/rules override_dh_autoreconf
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
echo 2.3.6 > .tarball-version
echo 2.3.6 > sc/.tarball-version
dh_autoreconf ./bootstrap
Running bootstrap in subdirectory sc
--- This is the bootstrap script for libsc ---
It is NOT required to run bootstrap to build from a tar.gz archive
Development requires a libtool recent enough to contain LT_INIT

[... snipped ...]

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ac_cv_prog_cxx_g=yes
ac_cv_prog_f77_c_o=yes
ac_cv_prog_f77_g=yes
ac_cv_prog_f77_v=-v
ac_cv_prog_fc_c_o=yes
ac_cv_prog_fc_g=yes
ac_cv_prog_fc_v=-v
ac_cv_prog_make_make_set=yes
am_cv_CC_dependencies_compiler_type=none
am_cv_CXX_dependencies_compiler_type=none
am_cv_filesystem_timestamp_resolution=0.01
am_cv_make_support_nested_variables=yes
am_cv_prog_cc_c_o=yes
am_cv_prog_tar_ustar=gnutar
am_cv_sleep_fractional_seconds=yes
am_cv_xargs_n_works=yes

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## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##

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AUTOMAKE='${SHELL} '\''/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build-aux/missing'\'' automake-1.18'
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CFLAGS='-g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection'
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CTAGS='ctags'
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FC='mpif90'
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LD=''
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro'
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LIBS=''
LIBTOOL=''
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LIPO=''
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OTOOL=''
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P4EST_ENABLE_BUILD_3D_FALSE='#'
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P4EST_ENABLE_V4L2_TRUE=''
P4EST_ENABLE_VTK_BINARY_FALSE='#'
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P4EST_ENABLE_VTK_COMPRESSION_FALSE='#'
P4EST_ENABLE_VTK_COMPRESSION_TRUE=''
P4EST_ENABLE_VTK_DOUBLES_FALSE=''
P4EST_ENABLE_VTK_DOUBLES_TRUE='#'
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## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "p4est"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "p4est"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.3.6"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "p4est 2.3.6"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "p4est at ins.uni-bonn.de"
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define PACKAGE "p4est"
#define VERSION "2.3.6"
#define VERSION_MAJOR 2
#define VERSION_MINOR 3
#define VERSION_POINT 6
#define VTK_BINARY 1
#define ENABLE_VTK_BINARY 1
#define VTK_COMPRESSION 1
#define ENABLE_VTK_COMPRESSION 1
#define BUILD_2D 1
#define ENABLE_BUILD_2D 1
#define BUILD_3D 1
#define ENABLE_BUILD_3D 1
#define BUILD_P6EST 1
#define ENABLE_BUILD_P6EST 1
#define MPI 1
#define ENABLE_MPI 1
#define MPIIO 1
#define ENABLE_MPIIO 1
#define ENABLE_MPITHREAD 1
#define F77_FUNC(name,NAME) name ## _
#define F77_FUNC_(name,NAME) name ## _
#define FC_FUNC(name,NAME) name ## _
#define FC_FUNC_(name,NAME) name ## _

configure: exit 
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 --enable-mpi --enable-mpiio returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:17: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:9: binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2
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