Bug#713695: libbonobo: FTBFS: tests/Makefile.am:57: error: using '$(srcdir)' in TESTS is currently broken: '$(srcdir)/test-properties.sh'

[David Suárez]

Source: libbonobo
Version: 2.32.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130620 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

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

Relevant part:
>  debian/rules build
> test -x debian/rules
> dh_autoreconf 
> aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and
> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> activation-server/Makefile.am:9: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
> bonobo-activation/Makefile.am:5: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> bonobo/Makefile.am:2: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> idl/Makefile.am:51: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> monikers/Makefile.am:1: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> samples/echo/Makefile.am:58: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> tests/Makefile.am:19: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> tests/Makefile.am:57: error: using '$(srcdir)' in TESTS is currently broken: '$(srcdir)/test-properties.sh'
> tests/test-activation/Makefile.am:76: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> utils/Makefile.am:9: warning: 'INCLUDES' is the old name for 'AM_CPPFLAGS' (or '*_CPPFLAGS')
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> dh_autoreconf: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
> make: *** [debian/autoreconf.after] Error 2

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/06/20/libbonobo_2.32.1-1_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!

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.