[R-pkg-team] Bug#978894: r-cran-rniftilib: ftbfs with autoconf 2.70

[Matthias Klose]

Package: src:r-cran-rniftilib
Version: 0.0-35.r79-6
Severity: normal
Tags: sid bookworm
User: doko at debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-ac270

[This bug report is not targeted to the upcoming bullseye release]

The package fails to build in a test rebuild on at least amd64 with
autoconf 2.70, but succeeds to build with autoconf 2.69. The
severity of this report will be raised before the bookworm release,
so nothing has to be done for the bullseye release.

The full build log can be found at:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/09/26.ac270/r-cran-rniftilib_0.0-35.r79-6_unstable_ac270.log
The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report.

To build with autoconf 2.70, please install the autoconf package from
experimental:  apt-get -t=experimental install autoconf 

[...]
dh binary --buildsystem R
   dh_update_autotools_config -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_autoreconf -O--buildsystem=R
configure.ac:2: warning: The macro `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' is obsolete.
configure.ac:2: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/status.m4:719: AC_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.ac:2: the top level
configure.ac:10: warning: The macro `AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
configure.ac:10: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:657: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
configure.ac:10: the top level
configure.ac:25: warning: The macro `CHECK_ZLIB' is obsolete.
configure.ac:25: You should run autoupdate.
/usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_zlib.m4:67: CHECK_ZLIB is expanded from...
configure.ac:25: the top level
configure.ac:2: warning: The macro `AC_CONFIG_HEADER' is obsolete.
configure.ac:2: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/status.m4:719: AC_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.ac:2: the top level
configure.ac:10: warning: The macro `AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
configure.ac:10: You should run autoupdate.
./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:657: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
configure.ac:10: the top level
configure.ac:25: warning: The macro `CHECK_ZLIB' is obsolete.
configure.ac:25: You should run autoupdate.
aclocal.m4:81: CHECK_ZLIB is expanded from...
configure.ac:25: the top level
   dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_build -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_test -O--buildsystem=R
   create-stamp debian/debhelper-build-stamp
   dh_testroot -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_prep -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_install -O--buildsystem=R
I: R Package: Rniftilib Version: 0.0-35
I: Building using R version 4.0.2-1
I: R API version: r-api-4.0
I: Using built-time from d/changelog: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:05:56 +0200
	mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-rniftilib/usr/lib/R/site-library
	R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-rniftilib/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:05:56 +0200'"
* installing *source* package ‘Rniftilib’ ...
** using staged installation
checking for g++... g++
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 the compiler supports GNU C++... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for g++ option to enable C++11 features... none needed
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for inline... inline
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.."
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Rniftilib’
* removing ‘/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-rniftilib/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rniftilib’
dh_auto_install: error: R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-cran-rniftilib/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:05:56 +0200'" returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:4: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2