I'm looking at Bug report # 778025, netrek-client-cow: ftbfs with GCC-5. Looks like in addition to the -std=gnu89 work around in debian/rules file, we also need -P gcc-5 preprocessor option in the configure phase to work around the "The preprocessor started to emit line markers to properly distinguish whether a macro token comes from a system header, or from a normal header" issue.
I may have missed something, but omparing both the configure.in and the configure script(which is included with the source package itself), looks like the configure script is not generated from the configure.in, as it should. Here is the reason. In configure.in file, we have # Checking forNCS="$INCS" SAVEINCS="$INCS $XINCLUDES" AC_EGREP_CPP("gmp=.*2", [ #include <gmp.h> gmp=__GNU_MP__ ],AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GMP2_H)) INCS="$SAVEINCS" Whereas the corresponding pattern in configure script does not quite match the above ("gmp=.*2" vs "gmp=.*[02-9]") as shown here, # Checking for GMP 2 SAVEINCS="$INCS" INCS="$INCS $XINCLUDES" cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF /* confdefs.h. */ _ACEOF cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF /* end confdefs.h. */ #include <gmp.h> gmp=__GNU_MP__ _ACEOF if (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&5 | $EGREP ""gmp=.*[02-9]"" >/dev/null 2>&1; then cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF #define HAVE_GMP2_H 1 _ACEOF fi rm -f conftest* INCS="$SAVEINCS" I also ran autogen.sh script. The generated configure does not seem to match the one comes with the source package either. Please let me know what you think about this discrepancy. Regardless of how the configure script is created, I propose that we fix configure.in (not the configure script) with the patch listed below, including the change in the above pattern, $ diff -urN configure.in.orig configure.in --- configure.in.orig 2009-06-16 11:14:39.000000000 +0000 +++ configure.in 2015-07-28 23:03:36.644212802 +0000 @@ -275,11 +275,14 @@ # Checking for GMP 2 SAVEINCS="$INCS" INCS="$INCS $XINCLUDES" -AC_EGREP_CPP("gmp=.*2", [ +SAVECPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS" +CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -P" +AC_EGREP_CPP("gmp=.*[[02-9]]", [ #include <gmp.h> gmp=__GNU_MP__ ],AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GMP2_H)) INCS="$SAVEINCS" +CPPFLAGS="$OLDCPPFLAGS" if test "$MPLIB" = nope; then if test "$search" = true; then Please let me know what you think. Thanks in advance. Thansk, Mak. For completeness, a patch for the debian/rules file is also listed here, $ diff -urN debian/rules.orig debian/rules --- debian/rules.orig 2015-07-28 23:20:08.436233328 +0000 +++ debian/rules 2015-07-28 23:21:53.032235493 +0000 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ CFLAGS:= $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS) CPPFLAGS:= $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CPPFLAGS) LDFLAGS:= $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS) +CFLAGS:= $(CFLAGS) -std=gnu89 ifneq (,$(filter werror,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) EXTRACFLAGS+= -Werror -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org