handlersocket: FTBFS: config.status: error: cannot find input file: `handlersocket/Makefile.in'

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/713580:

Source: handlersocket
Version: 1.1.0-7-g1044a28-1
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: <email address hidden>
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20130620 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> gcc version 4.8.1 (Debian 4.8.1-3)
> configure:3167: $? = 0
> configure:3156: gcc -V >&5
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> configure:3167: $? = 4
> configure:3156: gcc -qversion >&5
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> configure:3167: $? = 4
> configure:3187: checking whether the C compiler works
> configure:3209: gcc conftest.c >&5
> configure:3213: $? = 0
> configure:3261: result: yes
> configure:3264: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:3266: result: a.out
> configure:3272: checking for suffix of executables
> configure:3279: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
> configure:3283: $? = 0
> configure:3305: result:
> configure:3327: checking whether we are cross compiling
> configure:3335: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
> configure:3339: $? = 0
> configure:3346: ./conftest
> configure:3350: $? = 0
> configure:3365: result: no
> configure:3370: checking for suffix of object files
> configure:3392: gcc -c conftest.c >&5
> configure:3396: $? = 0
> configure:3417: result: o
> configure:3421: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
> configure:3440: gcc -c conftest.c >&5
> configure:3440: $? = 0
> configure:3449: result: yes
> configure:3458: checking whether gcc accepts -g
> configure:3478: gcc -c -g conftest.c >&5
> configure:3478: $? = 0
> configure:3519: result: yes
> configure:3536: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89
> configure:3599: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
> configure:3599: $? = 0
> configure:3612: result: none needed
> configure:3643: checking for style of include used by make
> configure:3671: result: GNU
> configure:3697: checking dependency style of gcc
> configure:3808: result: none
> configure:3881: checking for g++
> configure:3897: found /usr/bin/g++
> configure:3908: result: g++
> configure:3935: checking for C++ compiler version
> configure:3944: g++ --version >&5
> g++ (Debian 4.8.1-3) 4.8.1
> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> configure:3955: $? = 0
> configure:3944: g++ -v >&5
> Using built-in specs.
> COLLECT_GCC=g++
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper
> Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.8.1-3' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --with-arch-32=i586 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.8.1 (Debian 4.8.1-3)
> configure:3955: $? = 0
> configure:3944: g++ -V >&5
> g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
> g++: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> configure:3955: $? = 4
> configure:3944: g++ -qversion >&5
> g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
> g++: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> configure:3955: $? = 4
> configure:3959: checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler
> configure:3978: g++ -c conftest.cpp >&5
> configure:3978: $? = 0
> configure:3987: result: yes
> configure:3996: checking whether g++ accepts -g
> configure:4016: g++ -c -g conftest.cpp >&5
> configure:4016: $? = 0
> configure:4057: result: yes
> configure:4082: checking dependency style of g++
> configure:4193: result: none
> configure:4213: checking how to run the C preprocessor
> configure:4244: gcc -E conftest.c
> configure:4244: $? = 0
> configure:4258: gcc -E conftest.c
> conftest.c:11:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
> #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
> dh_auto_configure: ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/handlersocket --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --with-mysql-source=/«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/mysql-source-5.5/mysql-5.5 returned exit code 1
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/06/20/handlersocket_1.1.0-7-g1044a28-1_unstable.log

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 EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.