[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#993505: netgen-lvs FTBFS: configure: error: cannot find required auxiliary files: install-sh config.guess config.sub

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: netgen-lvs
Version: 1.5.133-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

netgen-lvs fails to build from source. A build on amd64 ends as follows:

|    dh_autoreconf
| autoreconf: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
| aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
| configure.in:9: warning: The macro `AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM' is obsolete.
| configure.in:9: You should run autoupdate.
| ./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2081: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM is expanded from...
| configure.in:9: the top level
| configure.in:25: warning: The macro `AC_ISC_POSIX' is obsolete.
| configure.in:25: You should run autoupdate.
| ./lib/autoconf/specific.m4:550: AC_ISC_POSIX is expanded from...
| configure.in:25: the top level
| configure.in:149: warning: The macro `AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
| configure.in:149: You should run autoupdate.
| ./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:704: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
| configure.in:149: the top level
| configure.in:171: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_LINK' is obsolete.
| configure.in:171: You should run autoupdate.
| ./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2920: AC_TRY_LINK is expanded from...
| configure.in:171: the top level
| configure.in:184: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_LINK' is obsolete.
| configure.in:184: You should run autoupdate.
| ./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2920: AC_TRY_LINK is expanded from...
| configure.in:184: the top level
| configure.in:874: warning: $as_echo is obsolete; use AS_ECHO(["message"]) instead
| configure.in:1293: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
| configure.in:1293: You should run autoupdate.
| configure.in:1293: warning: AC_C_BIGENDIAN should be used with AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
|    debian/rules override_dh_auto_configure
| make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
| dh_auto_configure -- --libdir=\${prefix}/lib
|         ./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 --libdir=\${prefix}/lib
| 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 --libdir=\${prefix}/lib returned exit code 1
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:18: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
| make: *** [debian/rules:15: build] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

Helmut