Bug#832870: 0ad: FTBFS: configure: error: python was not found in $PATH

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: 0ad
Version: 0.0.20-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20160728 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part (hopefully):
> checking for tar... tar
> tar
> checking for minimum required perl version >= 5.006... 5.022002
> checking for full perl installation... yes
> checking for python2.7... no
> configure: error: python was not found in $PATH
> checking for python... no
> ------ config.log ------
> configure:3164:1: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
> configure:3164:1: note: include '<stdlib.h>' or provide a declaration of 'exit'
> configure:3187: checking for ranlib
> configure:3219: checking for as
> configure:3273: checking for ar
> configure:3308: checking for ld
> configure:3343: checking for strip
> configure:3378: checking for windres
> configure:3917: checking how to run the C preprocessor
> configure:3938: gcc -E -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:3997: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor
> configure:4015: c++ -E -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 conftest.C >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:4075: checking for sb-conf
> configure:4075: checking for ve
> configure:4137: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:4190: checking whether ln -s works
> configure:4212: checking for tar archiver
> configure:4218: checking for gnutar
> configure:4218: checking for gtar
> configure:4218: checking for tar
> configure:4256: checking for minimum required perl version >= 5.006
> configure:4267: checking for full perl installation
> configure:4285: checking for python2.7
> configure:4285: checking for python
> configure: error: python was not found in $PATH
> ERROR: SpiderMonkey build failed
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
> debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_build' failed
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2016/07/28/0ad_0.0.20-1_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 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.