Bug#960214: gcc-9 breaks libalien-wxwidgets-perl autopkgtest: Can't exec "gcc": No such file or directory

[gregor herrmann]

Control: reassign -1 libalien-wxwidgets-perl 0.69+dfsg-2

On Sun, 10 May 2020 23:09:25 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 07:47:33PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > # Can't exec "gcc": No such file or directory at
> > /usr/share/perl/5.30/ExtUtils/CBuilder/Base.pm line 342.
> 
> I think the problem is that libalien-wxwidgets-perl Depends: gcc |
> c-compiler, but doesn't work with tcc, which provides the latter.
> The failing autopkgtest run seems to pick the tcc package for c-compiler
> instead of gcc-9.

Ha! Niko has better eyes again - thanks!
 
> I couldn't easily find a definition for the c-compiler virtual package,
> but I suspect it's only loosely defined and this bug should to be fixed
> by removing the alternative dependency.

Will do, also for libdevel-checklib-perl.
 
> I've just scheduled a retry of this job on amd64 to see if it was
> transient. In any case, I doubt the fault is in gcc-9.

Looks like tcc was picked again …


Cheers,
gregor

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