Bug#992133: firebird4.0 debian packaging

[Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>]

-=| Frank Doepper, 25.08.2021 16:58:15 +0200 |=-
> Hi Damyan,
> 
> great that you are packaging firebird4.0 for Debian. Volker and I have tried
> to build the source from
> https://salsa.debian.org/firebird-team/firebird4.0/
> with our mini-buildd on Debian Sid
> at Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:32:13 +0000
> and it failed with a strange linker error:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: g++  -g -O2
> -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
> -Werror=format-security -DUCHAR_TYPE=uint16_t -fno-lifetime-dse
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now
> -pthread    -Wl,--version-script,empty.vers
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/alice/alice.o
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/alice/alice_meta.o
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/alice/exe.o
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/alice/tdr.o
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/alice/main/aliceMain.o
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/common.a -o
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/gen/Release/firebird/bin/gfix
> -L/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/gen/Release/firebird/lib -lfbclient -ltommath -ltomcrypt
> -latomic -lm -ldl   -ldecFloat -lre2
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/temp/Release/common.a(SimilarToRegex.o): in function
> `Firebird::SimilarToRegex::matches(char const*, unsigned int,
> Firebird::Array<Firebird::SimilarToRegex::MatchPos,
> Firebird::EmptyStorage<Firebird::SimilarToRegex::MatchPos> >*)':
> ./gen/./src/common/SimilarToRegex.cpp:858: undefined reference to `re2::RE2::Arg::parse_stringpiece(char const*, unsigned long, void*)'

Thanks for the notice.

This is probably related to the new g++ in sid. Trying the build today 
failed even earlier, perhaps due to the new autotools. So this needs 
more work.

I am not sure when that work would happen. There is also work going 
upstream to fix the build on big-endian architectures. Help is 
welcome.


-- Damyan