phaseshift version 0.40-13.2 failed to build on i386
Link to failed build: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110329/+buildjob/2406984
Direct link to the build log: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110329/+buildjob/2406984/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-i386.phaseshift_0.40-13.2_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
This log snippet might be of interest, since it triggered the matcher 'Purging chroot-autobuild'.
Excerpt 1275 lines into the build log:
debian/rules build
dh_testdir
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 --with-qt-libraries=/usr/lib
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!
make: *** [build] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20110408-1815
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
Purging chroot-autobuild/build/buildd/phaseshift-0.40
The ./configure script aborts with "...Can't find X includes...", but this is misleading; the script finds the X11 include files, but not the X11 libraries, because its list of path prefix possibilities does not contain multi-arch paths e.g. /usr/lib/
This problem is present in natty and oneiric.
Perhaps what is needed is to run autoconf, or autoreconf, but these commands are failing with messages e.g. "...AC_