Bug#671969: phlipple: FTBFS: configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: phlipple
Version: 0.8.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120508 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh_testdir
> [ ! -d debian/patches ] || /usr/bin/make -f /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make patch
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> ./configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu \
> 		--prefix=/usr \
> 		--datarootdir=\${prefix}/share \
> 		--bindir=\${prefix}/games \
> 		--mandir=\${prefix}/share/man \
> 		--infodir=\${prefix}/share/info \
> 		CFLAGS="" \
> 		LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined"
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> checking for gcc... gcc
> 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 we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
> checking for library containing strerror... none required
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for pkg-config... no
> checking for PHLIPPLE... no
> configure: error: in `/«PKGBUILDDIR»':
> configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.  Make sure it
> is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full
> path to pkg-config.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PHLIPPLE_CFLAGS
> and PHLIPPLE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> To get pkg-config, see <http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>.
> See `config.log' for more details
> make: *** [config-stamp] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/05/08/phlipple_0.8.2-1_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!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot.  Internet was not
accessible from the build systems.