Bug#993334: gdal: FTBFS: configure.ac: error: required file 'config.rpath' not found

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 upstream pending
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/4341

On 8/30/21 11:22 PM, Niko Tyni wrote:
> This package fails to build from source on current sid.
> 
>>From a build log:
> 
>    configure.ac:5590: warning: The macro `AC_CHECKING' is obsolete.
>    configure.ac:5590: You should run autoupdate.
>    ./lib/autoconf/general.m4:2499: AC_CHECKING is expanded from...
>    configure.ac:5590: the top level
>    configure.ac:6030: warning: AC_OUTPUT should be used without arguments.
>    configure.ac:6030: You should run autoupdate.
>    configure.ac: error: required file 'config.rpath' not found
>    dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
>    make: *** [debian/rules:100: build] Error 25
>    dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2

This is a know issue, and a workaround has already been committed in git.

The recent removal of the deprecated RPC support in glibc created an
issue in libdap [0] and ogdi-dfsg [1] which both cause gdal to FTBFS
too. These need to be fixed as well before a new upload of gdal can happen.

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/993016
[1] https://github.com/libogdi/ogdi/issues/20

Kind Regards,

Bas

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