[Pkg-netsim-devel] Bug#669431: ns2: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -lXbsd

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: ns2
Version: 2.35~rc10+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Tags: wheezy sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120419 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> g++: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> configure:4735: $? = 4
> configure:4738: checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler
> configure:4767: g++ -c   conftest.cpp >&5
> configure:4774: $? = 0
> configure:4791: result: yes
> configure:4800: checking whether g++ accepts -g
> configure:4830: g++ -c -g  conftest.cpp >&5
> configure:4837: $? = 0
> configure:4938: result: yes
> configure:4961: checking for ANSI C header files
> configure:5129: result: yes
> configure:5144: checking for string.h
> configure:5151: result: yes
> configure:5295: checking for main in -lXbsd
> configure:5324: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lXbsd   >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXbsd
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2012/04/19/ns2_2.35~rc10+dfsg-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 about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot.  Internet was not
accessible from the build systems.