[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#542995: Bug #542995: trilinos: FTBFS: aclocal.m4:14: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.

[Daniel Moerner]

Hi,

I decided to try fixing this bug, since it just looked like trilinos was
missing a Build-Depend on automake1.10 instead of automake. However,
there are two more problems:

1. trilinos still build-depends on python-numeric. This was removed from
Debian last month. [1] It also build-depends on python-numpy, which is
the suggested alternative. However, I'm not sure if just removing the
build-depends is enough, because trilinos won't build from source.

2. When the following patch is applied:

diff -u trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/debian/control
trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/debian/control
--- trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/debian/control
+++ trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Debian Scientific Computing Team
<pkg-scicomp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Christophe Prud'homme <prudhomm at debian.org>
-Build-Depends: cdbs, quilt, debhelper (>= 7), automake, autoconf,
gfortran, libopenmpi-dev, libsuperlu3-dev, libsuitesparse-dev,
python-dev, swig1.3, python-numpy, python-numeric, libexpat1-dev,
libxml2-dev
+Build-Depends: cdbs, quilt, debhelper (>= 7), automake1.10, autoconf,
gfortran, libopenmpi-dev, libsuperlu3-dev, libsuitesparse-dev,
python-dev, swig1.3, python-numpy, libexpat1-dev, libxml2-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.8.1
 Homepage: http://trilinos.sandia.gov/
 Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-scicomp/trilinos/trunk/

The following error is produced:

make[4]: Entering directory
`/build/dmr-trilinos_9.0.3.dfsg-1.1-amd64-CFM9Lj/trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/packages/teuchos'

cd . && /bin/bash
/build/dmr-trilinos_9.0.3.dfsg-1.1-amd64-CFM9Lj/trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/packages/teuchos/config/missing
--run aclocal-1.10 -I config
/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:562: bad expression in eval: m4_Cursor + 0 + 1

/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:562: bad expression in eval:  > ()

/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:570: bad expression in eval: 1 > ()

/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:577: bad expression in eval: 2 > ()

autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1

WARNING: `aclocal-1.10' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy
on your
         system.  You might have modified some files without having the

         proper tools for further handling them.  Check the `README'
file,
         it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for
installing
         this package.  You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in
case
         some other package would contain this missing `aclocal-1.10'
program.
make[4]: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[4]: Leaving directory
`/build/dmr-trilinos_9.0.3.dfsg-1.1-amd64-CFM9Lj/trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/packages/teuchos'

make[3]: Leaving directory
`/build/dmr-trilinos_9.0.3.dfsg-1.1-amd64-CFM9Lj/trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg/packages'

make[1]: *** [all] Error 2

make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory
`/build/dmr-trilinos_9.0.3.dfsg-1.1-amd64-CFM9Lj/trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg'

make[1]: Leaving directory
`/build/dmr-trilinos_9.0.3.dfsg-1.1-amd64-CFM9Lj/trilinos-9.0.3.dfsg'

dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2


I see no obvious source for this error. Line 562, 570, and 570 of
configure.ac are just macros testing for options on the configure call;
line 555 has the exact same macro but doesn't error out. The macro
doesn't even involve any comparison, to my eye.

Here are the relevant lines in the file:

551 #
552 #  --enable-teuchos-boost
553 #
554
555 TAC_ARG_ENABLE_FEATURE_SUB( teuchos, boost, [Enable support for some
of boost], TEUCHOS_BOOST, no)
556 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_TEUCHOS_BOOST, [test "X$ac_cv_use_teuchos_boost"
!= "Xno"])
557
558 #
559 # --enable-teuchos-comm_timers
560 #
561
562 TAC_ARG_ENABLE_FEATURE_SUB( teuchos, comm_timers, [Enable timers for
Teuchos::Comm related software],
563         TEUCHOS_COMM_TIMERS, yes )
564 #AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_TEUCHOS_COMM_TIMERS, [test
"X$ac_cv_use_teuchos_comm_timers" != "Xno"])

And the macro itself:

AC_DEFUN([TAC_ARG_ENABLE_FEATURE_SUB],
[
AC_ARG_ENABLE([$1-$2],
AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-$1-$2],[$3 (default is [$5])]),
ac_cv_use_$1_$2=$enableval, ac_cv_use_$1_$2=$5)

AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to use [$1-$2])

if test "X$ac_cv_use_$1_$2" != "Xno"; then
  AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
  AC_DEFINE([HAVE_$4],,[Define if want to build $1-$2])
else
  AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
fi
])

That's as far as I was able to get on this bug.

Regards,
Daniel

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546570

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