Bug#356177: FTBFS: ./configure: line 2778: syntax error near unexpected token `('

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

Package: fv
Version: 3.0-13
Severity: serious

Your packages fails to build in unstable with the error message below.
A number of other packages have similar problems.  #344981 says "This
error is usually caused by broken old versions of tcl.m4; the current
tcl packages have fixed versions."


> Automatic build of fv_3.0-13 on bigsur by sbuild/mips 1.80
...
> checking for gethostbyname... yes
> checking system version (for dynamic loading)... ./configure: line 2778: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./configure: line 2778: `  case `(ac_space=' '; set | grep ac_space) 2>&1` in'
> touch configure-stamp
> dh_testdir
> docbook-to-man debian/fv.sgml | tee POWplot.1 > fv.1
> /usr/bin/make -C fitsTcl
> make[1]: Entering directory `/build/tbm/fv-3.0/fitsTcl'
> make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/