[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#782653: openmpi: Fails to build from source

[Michael Gilbert]

control: tag -1 unreproducible, moreinfo

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Mario Lang wrote:
> openmpi fails to build:
>
> $ apt-get source openmpi
> $ cd openmpi-1.6.5
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
>
> (log attached)
>
> Note that the problem seems to be related to timestamping of
> config/libtool.m4 (at least this file, maybe others as well).
>
> Before execution of dpkg-buildpackage, the file looks like this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mlang mlang 286350 Jun 26  2013 config/libtool.m4
>
> And after dpkg-buildpackage failed, it looks like this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mlang mlang 286793 Jän  1  1970 config/libtool.m4
>
> Note the date, this seems to confuse the build process.

I see the same timestamp change in unstable and jessie chroot builds,
but both also built to completion.  There is also success on the
buildds, so this may not need to be RC.  Do you have any other
information about your build setup?

Best wishes,
Mike