Re: Help with dh_autoreconf

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Ross Gammon <rossgammon@mail.dk>, 2014-09-20, 21:08:
> git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-grass/geographiclib.git
>
> The previous version (1.35) built fine with dh-autoreconf, but the new
> version I am packaging (1.37) does not, but it builds fine with
> autotools-dev.
>
> This seems to be the problem area (full buildlog attached in case I am
> wrong):
>
> configure:15391: g++ -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
> -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.cpp >&5
> configure:15391: $? = 0
> configure:15409: g++ -c -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
> -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.cpp >&5
> conftest.cpp: In function 'int main()':
> conftest.cpp:34:8: error: 'big' was not declared in this scope
>    not big endian
>        ^
> configure:15409: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */

Nope, this is red herring. The actual problem is:

> ./configure: line 15557: syntax error near unexpected token `-std=c++0x,'
> ./configure: line 15557: `AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG(-std=c++0x, CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -std=c++0x")'

Perhaps build-dependency on autoconf-archive is missing?

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Jakub Wilk