> Something weired seems to have happend to hol88-library. On some > architectures (arm64, hppa, m68k), the package is simply empty. Upon > closer inspection it turns out that the upstream build system simply > hides build failures. > > https://sources.debian.net/src/hol88/2.02.19940316-32/Makefile/#L291 > | (date; $(MAKE) hol; date; $(MAKE) library; date) > > Thus technically, hol88 fails to build from source, it violates policy > by not detecting such failure and it is dysfunctional by shipping > empty packages.
I've discussed this bug with release team member Ivo De Decker. Currently the package builds ok on arm64, which means the underlying problem is probably in gcl. Nonetheless the build system needs to catch the build errors and abort. - Carsten
