[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#963420: zsh: FTBFS: sh: 1: colcrt: not found

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: zsh
Version: 5.8-4
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20200620 ftbfs-bullseye

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[3]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/obj/Doc'
> /bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/zsh-common/usr/share/man/man1
> mkdir -m 755 -p -- /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/zsh-common/usr/share/man/man1
> for file in zsh.1 zshbuiltins.1 zshcalsys.1 zshcompctl.1 zshcompwid.1 zshcompsys.1 zshcontrib.1 zshexpn.1 zshmisc.1 zshmodules.1 zshoptions.1 zshparam.1 zshroadmap.1 zshtcpsys.1 zshzftpsys.1 zshzle.1 zshall.1; do \
>     test -s $file || exit 1; \
>     /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $file /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/zsh-common/usr/share/man/man1/`echo $file | sed 's|zsh|zsh|'` || exit 1; \
> done
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/obj/Doc'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/obj'
> perl /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/Util/helpfiles obj/Doc/zshbuiltins.1 debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help
> helpfiles: attempting man obj/Doc/zshbuiltins.1 >debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help/man.tmp
> man: can't execute col: No such file or directory
> man: command exited with status 127: col -b -p -x | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }'
> helpfiles: attempting nroff -man obj/Doc/zshbuiltins.1 >debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help/man.tmp
> helpfiles: attempting col -bx <debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help/man.tmp >debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help/col.tmp
> sh: 1: col: not found
> helpfiles: attempting colcrt - debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help/man.tmp >debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help/col.tmp
> sh: 1: colcrt: not found
> helpfiles: col -bx and colcrt - both failed
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:97: override_dh_auto_install-indep] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/06/20/zsh_5.8-4_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.