[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#861915: wpa 2:2.6-4 FTBFS on amd64 due to not finding pkg-config

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Source: wpa
Version: 2:2.6-4
Severity: normal

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=wpa&arch=amd64&ver=2%3A2.6-4&stamp=1487953962&raw=0

shows a build failure.  the final error message is:

../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c:17:31: fatal error: netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file or directory

however, the problem is likely actually because the build isn't
finding the native pkg-config.  there are dozens of these reports:

make[2]: x86_64-linux-gnu-pkg-config: Command not found

It looks like it's looking for the cross-compiling toolchain rather
than trying to build it natively.

     --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)