[pkg-uWSGI-devel] Bug#1007773: uwsgi: FTBS with /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpcre2-8

[Alexandre Rossi]

Source: uwsgi
Version: 2.0.20-2.2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: Policy 4.9

Dear Maintainer,

uwsgi fails to build from source in a sbuild chroot with the following error.

/usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool  --mode=link --tag=disable-static x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -lpcre2-8 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0    -o apache2/mod_Ruwsgi.la  -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lapr-1 -laprutil-1 -rpath /usr/lib/apache2/modules -module -avoid-version    apache2/mod_Ruwsgi.lo
libtool: link: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -shared  -fPIC -DPIC  apache2/.libs/mod_Ruwsgi.o   -lpcre2-8 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapr-1.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaprutil-1.so  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,-z -Wl,now   -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,mod_Ruwsgi.so -o apache2/.libs/mod_Ruwsgi.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpcre2-8: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536
.
make: *** [debian/rules:517: debian/stamp-libapache2-mod-ruwsgi] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

Thanks,

Alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)