Bug#676056: ices2: FTBFS: configure: error: Unable to link with libxml

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: ices2
Version: 2.0.1-11
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120604 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
>  debian/rules build
> test -x debian/rules
> mkdir -p "."
> /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk:109: WARNING:  DEB_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE is a deprecated variable
> 
> WARNING: copyright-check disabled - licensecheck (from devscripts package) is missing.
> 
> touch debian/stamp-copyright-check
> touch debian/stamp-upstream-cruft
> if test -e /usr/share/misc/config.guess ; then \
> 		for i in ./config.guess ; do \
> 			if ! test -e $i.cdbs-orig ; then \
> 				mv $i $i.cdbs-orig ; \
> 				cp --remove-destination /usr/share/misc/config.guess $i ; \
> 			fi ; \
> 		done ; \
> 	fi
> if test -e /usr/share/misc/config.sub ; then \
> 		for i in ./config.sub ; do \
> 			if ! test -e $i.cdbs-orig ; then \
> 				mv $i $i.cdbs-orig ; \
> 				cp --remove-destination /usr/share/misc/config.sub $i ; \
> 			fi ; \
> 		done ; \
> 	fi
> cd . && libtoolize -c -f
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in `m4'.
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and
> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
> cd . && aclocal-1.10 -I m4
> if [ -e ./configure.ac ] || [ -e ./configure.in ]; then cd . && `which autoconf2.60 || which autoconf`; fi
> if [ -e ./configure.ac ] || [ -e ./configure.in ]; then cd . && `which autoheader2.60 || which autoheader` ; fi
> if [ -e ./Makefile.am ]; then cd . && automake-1.10  ; fi
> touch debian/stamp-autotools-files
> chmod a+x /«PKGBUILDDIR»/./configure
> mkdir -p .
> cd . &&   CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall" CXXFLAGS="" CPPFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro" /«PKGBUILDDIR»/./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu  --prefix=/usr --includedir="\${prefix}/include" --mandir="\${prefix}/share/man" --infodir="\${prefix}/share/info" --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir="\${prefix}/lib/ices2" --srcdir=. --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules   --program-transform-name="s/ices$/ices2/" 
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-silent-rules
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking dependency style of gcc... none
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking how to print strings... printf
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
> checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
> checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 3458764513820540925
> checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
> checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
> checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
> checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
> checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
> checking for objdump... objdump
> checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
> checking for dlltool... no
> checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for archiver @FILE support... @
> checking for strip... strip
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
> checking for sysroot... no
> checking for mt... no
> checking if : is a manifest tool... no
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for dlfcn.h... yes
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
> checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
> checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> checking stropts.h usability... yes
> checking stropts.h presence... yes
> checking for stropts.h... yes
> checking sys/timeb.h usability... yes
> checking sys/timeb.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/timeb.h... yes
> checking sys/select.h usability... yes
> checking sys/select.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/select.h... yes
> checking sys/soundcard.h usability... yes
> checking sys/soundcard.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/soundcard.h... yes
> checking machine/soundcard.h usability... no
> checking machine/soundcard.h presence... no
> checking for machine/soundcard.h... no
> checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
> checking sys/audioio.h usability... no
> checking sys/audioio.h presence... no
> checking for sys/audioio.h... no
> checking alsa/asoundlib.h usability... yes
> checking alsa/asoundlib.h presence... yes
> checking for alsa/asoundlib.h... yes
> checking roaraudio.h usability... yes
> checking roaraudio.h presence... yes
> checking for roaraudio.h... yes
> checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
> checking for uint64_t... yes
> checking for gettimeofday... yes
> checking for ftime... yes
> checking for XML configuration
> checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
> configure: error: Unable to link with libxml
> checking for xmlParseFile... no
> make: *** [debian/stamp-autotools] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/06/04/ices2_2.0.1-11_unstable.log

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 EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.