RFH: ftbfs on powerpc: /usr/bin/make Makefile:190: *** missing separator

Hello, My package boinc(7.0.27+dfsg-4) failed on powerpc, with a bad Makefile. However, I tried to set up a sid system in qemu, but cannot reproduce this problem. The Makefile was generated by autoconf/automake, so this is very strange. From ...

Message posted on the June 26th, 2012 - 10:50 PM ET

RFH, AlmostRFS: confget-1.02-2 (updated package)

Hi, This is not quite a request for sponsorship, but rather something like a request for help. The confget package, kindly sponsored by George Danchev back in March, has remained in unstable since then because of a FTBFS bug #526961 on the ...

Message posted on the August 11th, 2009 - 10:40 AM ET

RFH: bashisms in configure script

Hi everyone, dash recently added support for the magic variable $LINENO, which was the last piece to make it POSIX compliant. However, this change made the autoconf- generated configure scripts use dash to execute the script's code. Without support ...

Message posted on the May 25th, 2010 - 5:20 PM ET

RFH: freecad, FTBFS on Armel:

Hi all, there is a strange FTBFS only on Armel platform [1]. Rn.h:217:23: error: 'R2' does not name a type .. But Rn.h:89 has [2]: class R2 { . } Why does it happens, and only on Armel? Thanks in advance. [1] ...

Message posted on the October 26th, 2011 - 6:20 PM ET

Bug#463807: RFH: wxwidgets2.8 -- help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated

I will help with this, in hopes that a new version will be more stable and fix the libwx-perl FTBFS bugs. Padre upstream strongly recommends (by not allowing installation with older versions, unless we patch the build system, which is what we did) ...

Message posted on the June 30th, 2009 - 7:00 PM ET

[RFH] ferm integration into dsa-puppet.git

Hi, the Debian Project currently runs about 100 machines[1] all over the world with different services. Those are mainly managed by the Debian System Administration team[2]. For central configuration management we use Puppet[3]. The Puppet config ...

Message posted on the January 14th, 2010 - 5:30 PM ET

Bug#596986: RFH: bogofilter FTBFS: unreproducible build test failures

reassign 596986 buildd.debian.org thanks Hi, bogofilter's tests occasionally fail on several specific buildds with an error that resembles nothing from the source package itself. I've failed to reproduce this bug, even though I've tried on several ...

Message posted on the October 8th, 2010 - 2:30 PM ET

RFH: strace FTBFS

Hello, currently, the 32bit binary build of strace fails on sparc (the 64bit one succeeds): https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=strace&ver=4.5.20-2&arch=sparc&stamp=1273064636&file=log gcc ...

Message posted on the May 5th, 2010 - 9:50 AM ET

Considering removal of simgear from testing

Hi As the subject suggests, I am considering the removal of simgear from testing. The reason is that it suffers from 3 unique FTBFS and it is a a part of a transition (openscenegraph)[1]. I did consider NMUing it, but I have no clue where to ...

Message posted on the July 20th, 2011 - 9:00 AM ET

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