Bug#978342: xnec2c: FTBFS: configure:5119: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR (caused by gettext 0.19 -> 0.21?)
Source: xnec2c
Version: 1:4.1.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS on amd64
Tags: bullseye sid ftbfs
Usertags: ftbfs-20201226 ftbfs-bullseye
Hi,
During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.
Relevant part (hopefully):
> debian/rules build
> dh build --with autoreconf
> dh_update_autotools_config
> dh_autoreconf
> Creating directory intl
> Copying file intl/COPYING.LIB
> Copying file intl/Makefile.in
> Copying file intl/VERSION
> Copying file intl/bindtextdom.c
> Copying file intl/config.charset
> Copying file intl/dcgettext.c
> Copying file intl/dcigettext.c
> Copying file intl/dcngettext.c
> Copying file intl/dgettext.c
> Copying file intl/dngettext.c
> Copying file intl/eval-plural.h
> Copying file intl/explodename.c
> Copying file intl/export.h
> Copying file intl/finddomain.c
> Copying file intl/gettext.c
> Copying file intl/gettextP.h
> Copying file intl/gmo.h
> Copying file intl/hash-string.c
> Copying file intl/hash-string.h
> Copying file intl/intl-compat.c
> Copying file intl/intl-exports.c
> Copying file intl/l10nflist.c
> Copying file intl/langprefs.c
> Copying file intl/libgnuintl.in.h
> Copying file intl/libintl.rc
> Copying file intl/loadinfo.h
> Copying file intl/loadmsgcat.c
> Copying file intl/localcharset.c
> Copying file intl/localcharset.h
> Copying file intl/locale.alias
> Copying file intl/localealias.c
> Copying file intl/localename.c
> Copying file intl/lock.c
> Copying file intl/lock.h
> Copying file intl/log.c
> Copying file intl/ngettext.c
> Copying file intl/os2compat.c
> Copying file intl/os2compat.h
> Copying file intl/osdep.c
> Copying file intl/plural-exp.c
> Copying file intl/plural-exp.h
> Copying file intl/plural.c
> Copying file intl/plural.y
> Copying file intl/printf-args.c
> Copying file intl/printf-args.h
> Copying file intl/printf-parse.c
> Copying file intl/printf-parse.h
> Copying file intl/printf.c
> Copying file intl/ref-add.sin
> Copying file intl/ref-del.sin
> Copying file intl/relocatable.c
> Copying file intl/relocatable.h
> Copying file intl/setlocale.c
> Copying file intl/textdomain.c
> Copying file intl/threadlib.c
> Copying file intl/tsearch.c
> Copying file intl/tsearch.h
> Copying file intl/vasnprintf.c
> Copying file intl/vasnprintf.h
> Copying file intl/vasnwprintf.h
> Copying file intl/verify.h
> Copying file intl/version.c
> Copying file intl/wprintf-parse.h
> Copying file intl/xsize.c
> Copying file intl/xsize.h
> Copying file m4/intldir.m4
> Copying file po/Makevars.template
> ERROR: Use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT without [external] argument is no longer supported.
> ERROR: Use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT without [external] argument is no longer supported.
> configure.ac:39: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4:55: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:39: the top level
> configure.ac:45: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4:55: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:45: the top level
> ERROR: Use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT without [external] argument is no longer supported.
> ERROR: Use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT without [external] argument is no longer supported.
> configure.ac:39: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> aclocal.m4:77: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:39: the top level
> configure.ac:45: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> aclocal.m4:77: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:45: the top level
> ERROR: Use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT without [external] argument is no longer supported.
> ERROR: Use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT without [external] argument is no longer supported.
> configure.ac:39: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> aclocal.m4:77: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:39: the top level
> configure.ac:45: warning: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> aclocal.m4:77: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:45: the top level
> configure:5119: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INTL_SUBDIR
> If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
> make: *** [debian/rules:6: build] Error 25
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/12/26/xnec2c_4.1.1-1_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!
If you reassign this bug to another package, please marking it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects
If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with me
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.
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.
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