[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#551233: alex: FTBFS: /bin/sh: autoconf: not found

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: alex
Version: 2.3.1-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20091016 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
>  /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
> test -x debian/rules
> dh_testroot
> dh_clean 
> test ! -x debian/hlibrary.setup || debian/hlibrary.setup clean
> rm -rf dist dist-ghc6 dist-hugs debian/hlibrary.setup Setup.hi Setup.ho Setup.o .*config*
> rm -f build-ghc6-stamp build-hugs-stamp build-haddock-stamp
> rm -rf debian/tmp-inst-ghc6
> rm -f debian/hlibrary.Makefile
> rm -rf debian/dh_haskell_shlibdeps
> [ ! -f doc/config.mk ] || /usr/bin/make -C doc clean
> # Remove these so setup clean doesn't remove the generated files
> #rm -f src/Parser.y src/Scan.x
> rm -f debian/get_version.o debian/get_version.hi debian/get_version
> rm -f doc/alex.1
> # Hacks:
> rm -f doc/config.log doc/config.status doc/config.mk doc/configure
>  dpkg-source -b alex-2.3.1
> dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0'
> dpkg-source: info: building alex using existing alex_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: building alex in alex_2.3.1-1.diff.gz
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory dist
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory dist/build
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory dist/build/alex
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory dist/build/alex/alex-tmp
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file dist/build/alex/alex-tmp/Scan.hs
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file dist/build/alex/alex-tmp/Parser.hs
> dpkg-source: info: building alex in alex_2.3.1-1.dsc
>  debian/rules build
> test -x debian/rules
> mkdir -p "."
> # doc/configure is not shipped, generate it
> cd doc && autoconf && rm -r autom4te.cache &&  ./configure --prefix=/usr
> /bin/sh: autoconf: not found
> make: *** [configure/alex] Error 127

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2009/10/16/alex_2.3.1-1_lsid64.buildlog

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 about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot.  Internet was not
accessible from the build systems.

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