Bug#1065290: libhdf4: missing build-dep on libtirpc-dev

[Aurelien Jarno]

Source: libhdf4
Version: 4.2.16-3
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
User: debian-glibc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: libtirpc-dev

Dear maintainer,

Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been
moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth
transition, a libnsl-dev, which depends on libtirpc-dev, has been added
to the libc6-dev package.

The libnsl-dev dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1
NMU, as part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes libhdf4 to
FTBFS in sid with:

| dh_auto_configure --sourcedirectory=HDF4 \
|                   --builddirectory=debian/build-hdf4 \
|                   -- --prefix=/usr \
|                      --includedir=/usr/include/hdf \
|                      --libdir=/usr/lib \
|                      --enable-shared \
|                      --enable-fortran \
|                      --with-szlib=yes \
|                      F77="gfortran" CC="gcc" CXX="g++" \
|                      CFLAGS="-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/tirpc/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -ltirpc"
|         cd debian/build-hdf4 && ../../HDF4.2.16/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 --prefix=/usr --includedir=/usr/include/hdf --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-fortran --with-szlib=yes F77=gfortran CC=gcc CXX=g\+\+ "CFLAGS=-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/tirpc/" "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -ltirpc"
| checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| checking whether build environment is sane... yes
| checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
| checking for gawk... no
| checking for mawk... mawk
| checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
| checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
| checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
| checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
| checking shell variables initial values... done
| checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
| checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
| checking if basename works... yes
| checking if xargs works... yes
| checking for config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu... no
| checking for config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu... no
| checking for config pc-linux-gnu... no
| checking for config pc-linux-gnu... no
| checking for config x86_64-linux-gnu... no
| checking for config x86_64-linux-gnu... no
| checking for config x86_64-pc... no
| checking for config linux-gnu... found
| compiler 'gcc' is GNU gcc-13.2.0
| gfortran: error: unrecognized command-line option '-V'
| gfortran: fatal error: no input files
| compilation terminated.
| ../../HDF4.2.16/config/gnu-fflags: line 66: test: -ge: unary operator expected
| checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
| checking for gcc... gcc
| checking whether the C compiler works... no
| configure: error: in `/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-hdf4':
| configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
| See `config.log' for more details
|         cd debian/build-hdf4 && tail -v -n \+0 config.log
| ==> config.log <==
| This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
| running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
...
 
| configure:4337: checking whether the C compiler works
| configure:4359: gcc -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/tirpc/ -std=c99 -Wall -Wcast-qual -Wconversion -Wextra -Wfloat-equal -Wformat=2 -Winit-self -Winvalid-pch -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wshadow -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -pedantic -Wno-c++-compat -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/tirpc/ -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -ltirpc conftest.c  >&5
| cc1: warning: /usr/include/tirpc/: No such file or directory [-Wmissing-include-dirs]
| cc1: warning: /usr/include/tirpc/: No such file or directory [-Wmissing-include-dirs]
| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltirpc: No such file or directory
| collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
| configure:4363: $? = 1
| configure:4403: result: no
| configure: failed program was:
| | /* confdefs.h */
| | #define PACKAGE_NAME "HDF" 
| | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "hdf"
| | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "4.2.16"
| | #define PACKAGE_STRING "HDF 4.2.16"
| | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "help at hdfgroup.org"
| | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| | #define PACKAGE "hdf"
| | #define VERSION "4.2.16"
| | #define HAVE_NETCDF 1
| | /* end confdefs.h.  */
| | 
| | int
| | main (void)
| | {
| | 
| |   ; 
| |   return 0;
| | }
| configure:4408: error: in `/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build-hdf4':
| configure:4410: error: C compiler cannot create executables
| See `config.log' for more details

This can be fixed by adding an explicit Build-Depends on libtirpc-dev.
The glibc change will likely be reverted in the short term, but given
its a change we want to do for Trixie, this will only lower the severity
of the bug.

Regards
Aurelien