[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#738378: freecontact: FTBFS: configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!

[David Suárez]

Source: freecontact
Version: 1.0.21-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140208 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 dynamic linker characteristics... (cached) GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> configure: -O3 enables: -falign-functions -falign-jumps -falign-labels -falign-loops -fcaller-saves -fcombine-stack-adjustments -fcompare-elim -fcprop-registers -fcrossjumping -fcse-follow-jumps -fdefer-pop -fdevirtualize -fexpensive-optimizations -fforward-propagate -fgcse -fgcse-after-reload -fguess-branch-probability -fhoist-adjacent-loads -fif-conversion -fif-conversion2 -finline-functions -finline-functions-called-once -finline-small-functions -fipa-cp -fipa-cp-clone -fipa-profile -fipa-pure-const -fipa-reference -fipa-sra -fmerge-constants -foptimize-register-move -foptimize-sibling-calls -foptimize-strlen -fpeephole2 -fpredictive-commoning -fregmove -freorder-blocks -freorder-functions -frerun-cse-after-loop -fschedule-insns2 -fshrink-wrap -fsplit-wide-types -fstrict-aliasing -fthread-jumps -ftree-bit-ccp -ftree-builtin-call-dce -ftree-ccp -ftree-ch -ftree-copy-prop -ftree-copyrename -ftree-dce -ftree-dominator-opts -ftree-dse -ftree-fre -ftree-loop-distribute-patterns -ftree-partial-pre -ftree-pre -ftree-sink -ftree-slsr -ftree-sra -ftree-switch-conversion -ftree-tail-merge -ftree-ter -ftree-vectorize -ftree-vrp -funswitch-loops -fvect-cost-model
> checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0... yes
> checking whether the Boost::Program_Options library is available... yes
> configure: error: Could not find a version of the library!

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/02/08/freecontact_1.0.21-1_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.