[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#467586: libmesh: FTBFS: checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: libmesh
Version: 0.6.1.dfsg-3
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20080225 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on i386

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386.

Relevant part:
>  /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> rm -f build-stamp 
> QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt pop -a -R || test $? = 2
> No patch removed
> [ ! -f Make.common ] || /usr/bin/make distclean
> rm -f config.sub config.guess
> dh_clean  --exclude ./contrib/triangle/makefile.orig --exclude ./contrib/tetgen/makefile.orig
>  dpkg-source -b libmesh-0.6.1.dfsg
> dpkg-source: building libmesh using existing libmesh_0.6.1.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: building libmesh in libmesh_0.6.1.dfsg-3.diff.gz
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file config.guess
> dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file config.sub
> dpkg-source: building libmesh in libmesh_0.6.1.dfsg-3.dsc
>  debian/rules build
> dh_testdir
> cp /usr/share/misc/config.guess .
> cp /usr/share/misc/config.sub .
> QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt push -a || test $? = 2
> Applying patch contrib.patch
> patching file contrib/Makefile
> 
> Applying patch numeric_vector.patch
> patching file src/numerics/numeric_vector.C
> 
> Now at patch numeric_vector.patch
> PETSC_DIR=/usr/lib/petsc PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-c-opt LDFLAGS=-Wl,-soname,libmesh.so.0.6.1,-lpetsc,-lpetscdm,-lpetscksp,-lpetscmat,-lpetscsnes,-lpetscts,-lpetscvec ./configure --host=i486-linux-gnu --build=i486-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --disable-laspack --disable-slepc --disable-sfc --disable-gzstreams --disable-tecplot --disable-metis --disable-parmetis --disable-tetgen --disable-triangle --with-mpi=/usr --with-cxx=mpicxx --with-cc=mpicc --with-f77=mpif77 --disable-gmv
> ---------------------------------------------
> ----------- Configuring libMesh -------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> checking build system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for i486-linux-gnu-g++... mpicxx
> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> make: *** [config.status] Error 77

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2008/02/25

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 containing a sid i386
environment.  Internet was not accessible from the build systems.

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