Those errors might look like this in the build log:

    checking for idna_to_ascii_from_locale... no
    ../configure: line 12285: test: =: unary operator expected

This usually means that there is a syntax error in the configure script
but the execution could be completed. Syntax errors can lead to
unexpected configuration results.

Sorry for the late reply. I totally missed your bug report.

* Evgeni Golov <evgeni@debian.org> [2014-03-23 14:38]:

Do you have an example of a buildd log that contains a line like that?
I did a manual scan of all packages currently in unstable with the
regexp you gave and could not find any example.

I'd would have expected that regexp to be quite expensive due to the
starting with .* but it currently hardly increases the number of states
in the compile finite state machine and it really cannot be helped that
much I guess it does not matter.

I guess it makes sense to start with an warning right away (I guess
error is a bit too hard as it might not be an actual problem)

I guess a longer description might be nice but currently the only thing
I can think of is perhaps making the example line a bit more specific
like


	Bernhard R. Link

Hi,

No problem :)

mutt, if you remove this patch:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mutt/mutt.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/0041-__misc__fix-configure-test-operator.patch;h=f986e099142f23df4102fd7cd57bb7e255f6dff4;hb=4e4a9de33a9d3b63fa68abb32cfb31dcdfa71d18

Yeah, I had a hard time not writing "look at the damn warning" in the
first place :)

Greets
Evgeni

Hallo,

Ich habe dir eine Mail geschickt, aber keine Antwort von dir, warum?

Eddie