Re: Build system changes?

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 15:58:23 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> I saw the update which hit the dpkg git repository today and routinely
> wanted to rebuild the translations with the script you provided me
> several years ago (according to the file date 2009). However, it no
> longer works:
> 
> …
> checking for po4a >= 0.59... /usr/bin/po4a
> checking for perl >= 5.28.1... (cached) /usr/bin/perl
> checking for pod2man... pod2man
> checking whether to build with code coverage... no
> checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
> checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
> checking for md5.h... no
> configure: error: in `/tmp/dpkg':
> configure: error: md5 digest functions not found
> See `config.log' for more details
[…]

> Sorry for the German. It says 
> Directory ... is entered
> No rule to make .... Finished
> Directory .. is left
> 
> Looking at the tree after configure I fail to say *any* Makefile
> outside of "tests".
> 
> So maybe configure is silently broken?

I guess you do not have libmd-dev installed? This should be part of
the Build-Depends. An «apt build-dep .» should in theory fix this.
Let me know if this is not enough or something else is broken.

Thanks,
Guillem