It looks like this patch needs to be applied to fix this bug in
ax_check_gl.m4
https://github.com/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive/commit/427e226a2fe3980388abffd6de25ed6b9591cce3
On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:28:29 +0000 Santiago Vila <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: src:gource
> Version: 0.55-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs forky sid
>
> Dear maintainer:
>
> During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to
build.
>
> Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
> relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
> is available here:
>
> https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202510/
>
> About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines
from AWS,
> using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.
>
> If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
> am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
> fully reproducible.
>
> If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
> reassign and add an affects on src:gource, so that this is still
> visible in the BTS web page for this package.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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> [...]
> debian/rules clean
> dh clean
> dh_auto_clean
> dh_clean
> debian/rules binary
> dh binary
> dh_update_autotools_config
> debian/rules override_dh_autoreconf
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> rm m4/*.m4
> dh_autoreconf
> configure.ac:30: error: _AX_CHECK_GL_MANUAL_LIBS_GENERIC: argument
must not be empty
> lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from...
> lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
> /usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_gl.m4:187:
_AX_CHECK_GL_MANUAL_LIBS_GENERIC is expanded from...
> lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:595: AS_CASE is expanded from...
> /usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_gl.m4:253: AX_CHECK_GL is expanded from...
> configure.ac:30: the top level
> autom4te: error: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal: error: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> dh_autoreconf: error: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:20: override_dh_autoreconf] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
> make: *** [debian/rules:16: binary] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned
exit status 2
>
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