* Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> [2023-12-20 13:43]:
El 16/12/23 a las 22:30, Rafael Laboissière escribió:
I did the investigation again, using pbuilder. Here is what I found:
– In my case, pbuilder sets HOME=/nonexistent/ and debhelper (compat level =
13) keeps that setting. Hence, the package FTBFS.
– If I use "export HOME = /tmp", for instance, in debian/rules, then the build
succeeds.
Thanks for the additional investigation. This is why I was sorry to see this
package being removed, as you have just confirmed that the FTBFS problem
was indeed easy to fix... Nevermind, I take note of course that it was not
the main reason for the removal.
Yes, the real reason is elsewhere.
I guess a more standard approach, if you ever have to do this in a real package,
would be to do this:
HOME := $(shell mktemp -d)
so that the same directory is never used twice between consecutive builds.
Yes, this is a much better solution. Thanks for the suggestion. I am just
wondering: is there a simple way to delete the temporary directory after
he build is finished ?
Best,
Rafael
