Bug#865650: firefox-esr FTBFS: tries to use system nspr but has no build dependency

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Fri Jun 23 14:56:45 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 04:53:19PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Source: firefox-esr
> Version: 52.2.0esr-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firefox-esr&suite=sid
> 
> ...
> checking for valloc in malloc.h... yes
> checking for valloc in unistd.h... no
> checking NSPR selection... system
> checking for nspr-config... no
> checking for NSPR - version >= 4.13.1... no
> configure: error: you do not have NSPR installed or your version is older than 4.13.1.
> ...

Whatever created the binnmu borked debian/control, but the build itself
preprocessed it with the right flags (-DUSE_SYSTEM_NSPR="1"), but that's
too late for the dependencies installer.

How does one get a hand on the .diff.xz?

Mike



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