~/work/sdl/libsdl2-ttf-2.0.12+dfsg1$ dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package libsdl2-ttf
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.0.12+dfsg1-2
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <email address hidden>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-source --before-build libsdl2-ttf-2.0.12+dfsg1
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with autoreconf --parallel
dh_testdir -O--parallel
dh_auto_clean -O--parallel
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cwillu/work/sdl/libsdl2-ttf-2.0.12+dfsg1'
cd . && /bin/bash /home/cwillu/work/sdl/libsdl2-ttf-2.0.12+dfsg1/missing automake-1.13 --foreign Makefile
/home/cwillu/work/sdl/libsdl2-ttf-2.0.12+dfsg1/missing: line 81: automake-1.13: command not found
WARNING: 'automake-1.13' is missing on your system.
You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or
'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
<http://www.perl.org/>
make[1]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cwillu/work/sdl/libsdl2-ttf-2.0.12+dfsg1'
dh_auto_clean: make -j1 distclean returned exit code 2
make: *** [clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0 2.0.12+dfsg1-2
Uname: Linux 3.16.3-031603-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Jun 8 18:01:26 2015
SourcePackage: libsdl2-ttf
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-25 (226 days ago)
Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. This seems to build fine in a clean chroot. Did you install build-essential as well as the build dependencies for the package (mk-build-deps -i from within the source dir)?