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slayedbylucifer

Reputation: 23502

debian/rules:161: recipe for target 'config.status' failed

I had originally posted this few days ago on askubuntu @ https://askubuntu.com/questions/1044708/debian-rules161-recipe-for-target-config-status-failed

Unfortunately, I failed to get any responses. Hence looking for some help on StackOverflow.

I am trying to build a deb package for collect-pw. The upstream tar ball is: http://perfwatcher.free.fr/download/collectd/collectd-5.4.0.20150311.tar.gz

For building this package, I pulled the source package for collectd from ubuntu repo and modified the package name under debian/control and debian/changelog.

Now, when I run pdebuild (OR debuild for that sake), it fails with below error:

configure: exit 1
debian/rules:161: recipe for target 'config.status' failed
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

I am not able to figure out what is wrong here. The error is a generic error. If I run ./configure, make, then build goes fine.

Here are relevant lines from debian/rules

160 config.status: configure
161         dh_testdir
162
163         PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(CURDIR)/debian/pkgconfig:$$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" \
164         ./configure $(confflags) CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" \
165                 JAVAC="$(JAVAC)" JAR="$(JAR)" JAVA_CPPFLAGS="$(JAVA_CPPFLAGS)" \
166                 JAVA_LDFLAGS="$(JAVA_LDFLAGS)" \
167                 || ( status=$$?; cat config.log; exit $$status )

Can you help with any pointers on what could be going wrong here? OR Any suggestion to make it provide detailed error would be helpful because configure: exit 1 does not give much insight to act upon.

BTW, I have export DH_VERBOSE=1 enabled in debian/rules.

UPDATE:

As suggested by @GiacomoCatenazzi:

Here are the last few lines of output of above make command:

...
...
...
#define HAVE_PLUGIN_VSERVER 1
#define HAVE_PLUGIN_WIRELESS 1
#define HAVE_PLUGIN_WRITE_GRAPHITE 1

configure: exit 1
Reaping losing child 0x1a103d0 PID 27476
debian/rules:161: recipe for target 'config.status' failed
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
Removing child 0x1a103d0 PID 27476 from chain.

Last few lines of the log are as below:

29303 #define HAVE_PLUGIN_WIRELESS 1
29304 #define HAVE_PLUGIN_WRITE_GRAPHITE 1
29305
29306 configure: exit 1

No helpful information here as well :(

UPDATE:

As suggested by @Stephen Kitt, The entire config.log is available here: http://pasted.co/3767a043

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1867

Answers (1)

Stephen Kitt
Stephen Kitt

Reputation: 2881

The configuration failed for the following reason:

configure:59894: error: "Some plugins are missing dependencies - see the summary above for details"

The summary isn’t included in the logs but should have been output to your terminal.

You need to install a number of packages to satisfy collect-pw’s build dependencies.

The log file you’ve posted, which I think comes from your direct attempts using debian/rules, indicates that many dependencies are missing, of which at least some are listed in debian/control and would be installed by pdebuild (pkg-config, libyajl-dev and others). Since the build is failing with pdebuild too, I’m guessing there are dependencies specific to collect-pw which aren’t listed in collectd’s debian/control; you should investigate the missing build-dependencies and add them to debian/control (and install them locally if you want to build locally).

Upvotes: 1

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