Bug#952305: libpdl-io-matlab-perl: FTBFS: Error: OUTPUT =pod not an argument in Matlab.xs, line 230

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: libpdl-io-matlab-perl
Version: 0.005-3
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20200222 ftbfs-bullseye

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> "/usr/bin/perl" "-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30" "-MPDL::PP qw[PDL::IO::Matlab PDL::IO::Matlab Matlab]" matlab.pd
> Useless use of a constant ("\n=cut\n") in void context at matlab.pd line 617.
> cp Matlab.pm blib/lib/PDL/IO/Matlab.pm
> Running Mkbootstrap for Matlab ()
> chmod 644 "Matlab.bs"
> "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Matlab.bs blib/arch/auto/PDL/IO/Matlab/Matlab.bs 644
> "/usr/bin/perl" "/usr/share/perl/5.30/ExtUtils/xsubpp"  -typemap '/usr/share/perl/5.30/ExtUtils/typemap' -typemap '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/PDL/Core/typemap.pdl' -typemap '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/typemap'  Matlab.xs > Matlab.xsc
> Error: OUTPUT =pod not an argument in Matlab.xs, line 230
> Error: OUTPUT =cut not an argument in Matlab.xs, line 240
> Code is not inside a function (maybe last function was ended by a blank line  followed by a statement on column one?) in Matlab.xs, line 250
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:366: Matlab.c] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/02/22/libpdl-io-matlab-perl_0.005-3_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.