Bug#906493: netcdf-cxx-legacy: FTBFS in buster/sid (makeinfo: command not found)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:netcdf-cxx-legacy
Version: 4.2-10
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in buster but it failed:

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[...]
 debian/rules build-arch
dh build-arch --with autoreconf,pkgkde_symbolshelper --parallel
   dh_update_autotools_config -a -O--parallel
   dh_autoreconf -a -O--parallel
configure.ac:95: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2672: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2689: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:1084: _LT_SYS_MODULE_PATH_AIX is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:4211: _LT_LINKER_SHLIBS is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:5343: _LT_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:143: _LT_SETUP is expanded from...
m4/libtool.m4:69: LT_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:95: the top level

[... snipped ...]

make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/cxx'
Making install in examples
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/examples'
make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/examples'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/examples'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/examples'
Making install in man4
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/man4'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
if (/bin/bash /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
  for f in netcdf-cxx.info netcdf-cxx.info-[0-9] netcdf-cxx.info-[0-9][0-9] netcdf-cxx.i[0-9] netcdf-cxx.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
    if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
  done; \
else :; fi && \
cd "$am__cwd"; \
if /bin/bash /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing makeinfo   -I . \
 -o netcdf-cxx.info netcdf-cxx.texi; \
then \
  rc=0; \
  CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .; \
else \
  rc=$?; \
  CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./netcdf-cxx.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing: line 81: makeinfo: command not found
WARNING: 'makeinfo' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified a '.texi' file, or
         any other file indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.
         You might want to install the Texinfo package:
         <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
         The spurious makeinfo call might also be the consequence of
         using a buggy 'make' (AIX, DU, IRIX), in which case you might
         want to install GNU make:
         <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
make[2]: *** [Makefile:401: netcdf-cxx.info] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/man4'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:414: install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_install: make -j1 install DESTDIR=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/tmp AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no returned exit code 2
make: *** [debian/rules:18: binary-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch subprocess returned exit status 2
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The build was made with "dpkg-buildpackage -B" in my autobuilder.
Most probably, it also fails here in reproducible builds:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/netcdf-cxx-legacy.html

where you can get a full build log if you need it.

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

Thanks.