[Pkg-citadel-devel] Bug#676064: webcit: FTBFS: configure: error: expat.h was not found and is required. More info: http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/installation:start

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: webcit
Version: 8.11-dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120604 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> dh_testdir
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> CFLAGS="`dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS` `dpkg-buildflags --get CPPFLAGS` -O2" LDFLAGS="`dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS`" ./configure \
> 		--host=x86_64-linux-gnu \
> 		--build=x86_64-linux-gnu \
> 		--prefix=/usr/sbin/ \
> 		--with-wwwdir=/usr/share/citadel-webcit \
> 		--with-localedir=/usr/share/ \
> 		--with-editordir=/usr/share/tinymce/www \
> 		--with-rundir=/var/run/citadel \
>                 --with-ssldir=/etc/ssl/webcit/ \
> 		--with-ssl \
> 		--with-datadir=/var/run/citadel \
> 		 
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> /«PKGBUILDDIR»/missing: Unknown `--run' option
> Try `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/missing --help' for more information
> configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
> checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking minix/config.h usability... no
> checking minix/config.h presence... no
> checking for minix/config.h... no
> checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
> checking for sed... sed
> checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
> checking for pthread_create in -lpthreads... no
> checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
> checking for library containing connect... none required
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking for call semantics from getpwuid_r... yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for off_t... yes
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking size of char... 1
> checking size of short... 2
> checking size of int... 4
> checking size of long... 8
> checking size of long unsigned int... 8
> checking size of size_t... 8
> checking return type of signal handlers... void
> checking for snprintf... yes
> checking CUnit/CUnit.h usability... no
> checking CUnit/CUnit.h presence... no
> checking for CUnit/CUnit.h... no
> checking fcntl.h usability... yes
> checking fcntl.h presence... yes
> checking for fcntl.h... yes
> checking limits.h usability... yes
> checking limits.h presence... yes
> checking for limits.h... yes
> checking sys/time.h usability... yes
> checking sys/time.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/time.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking xlocale.h usability... yes
> checking xlocale.h presence... yes
> checking for xlocale.h... yes
> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> checking for zlibVersion in -lz... yes
> checking Checking to see if your system supports iconv... yes
> webcit will be built with character set conversion.
> checking for libintl_bindtextdomain in -lintl... no
> checking libical/ical.h usability... yes
> checking libical/ical.h presence... yes
> checking for libical/ical.h... yes
> checking for icaltimezone_set_tzid_prefix in -lical... yes
> checking libcitadel.h usability... yes
> checking libcitadel.h presence... yes
> checking for libcitadel.h... yes
> checking for libcitadel_version_string in -lcitadel... yes
> checking expat.h usability... no
> configure: error: expat.h was not found and is required.  More info: http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/installation:start
> checking expat.h presence... no
> checking for expat.h... no
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/06/04/webcit_8.11-dfsg-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!

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.