Add AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to your configure.in or configure.ac, or run
./configure --enable-maintainer-mode if your ./configure script
supports it (which it probably does). 

yes, it's probably some weird timestamp issue or some other
weirdness. It's not worth investigating, just do the above :)

* Neil L. Roeth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am having a similar problem right now, and I was going to "solve" it by
> adding automake to the build dependencies.
> 
> I had to run automake on my source tree, and after uploading the changed
> package, it FTBFS on some architectures, but not all.  Examining the buildd
> logs showed it tried to run automake to build Makefile.in, which has a make
> dependency on Makefile.am and aclocal.m4.  It failed to find automake and
> died.  The simple solution is to add automake to the build dependencies, which
> you say should not be done.
> 
> But, *why* did this happen?  I had created Makefile.in in the source tree
> after aclocal.m4, so it was a *newer* file there and did not trigger a call to
> automake on my build machine.  However, the buildd make somehow thought the
> Makefile.in was *older* than aclocal.m4, so it did trigger a call to automake
> and failed when it could not find it.  Perhaps the problem is that both
> aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in are unpacked from the source package in the order
> that they appear in the .diff.gz file; Makefile.in is in the .diff.gz first,
> followed by aclocal.m4.  So the time ordering was reversed after the files
> were created by patching .orig.tar.gz with .diff.gz, and automake got invoked
> needlessly.  That's my theory, feel free to point out any stunningly obvious
> facts that I overlooked which make it invalid :-)
> 
> What this does not explain is why it did not FTBFS on all architectures.  I
> searched through one or two other logs of successful builds and did not see
> any calls to automake, so somehow the dependency did not trigger.  Also, a
> build with pbuilder on my machine, i.e., a clean environment, had no problem.
> 
> Unless you or someone else can tell me what is going on, and a better way to
> fix it, I am inclined to go ahead and include automake in the build
> dependencies.
> 
> For reference, the buildd logs are here:
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=aplus-fsf
> 
> and it is the -4 packages for which the above occurred.
> 
> On Mar 12, Eric Dorland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>  > As automake maintainer I'd just like to point out that build-depending
>  > on automake1.6 (any automake for that matter) is bad! Run automake on
>  > your source tree and ship the changed files in the diff.gz.
>  > 
>  > * Jean-Michel Kelbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > I recently upload to sid my new package : k3b. But I have forget to add
>  > > automake1.6 in Build-Depends. That's why I would like to made a new
>  > > release. However, I didn't manage to compile k3b from source ! But if I
>  > > apply the diff.gz patch to the upstream source. Then it works ! I didn't
>  > > unterstand why ! I made a diff -Naur from the two directory, and the
>  > > content is the same. Then I made a diff from the md5sum of each file in
>  > > the directory, and it is also the same ! That's why I don't understand
>  > > why it doesn't compile (with debuild) from the debian sources !
>  > > 
>  > > Thanks for your help.
>  > > 
>  > 
> 

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