[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#909071: pbbam: FTBFS on every release architecture where it previously built (fwd)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:06:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:35:23AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > And then there is the unrelated #908269 that currently prevents testing 
> > migration of pbbam.
> 
> > Steve seems to be addressing this with
> > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/409374477/pbbam_0.19.0+dfsg-1ubuntu3_0.19.0+dfsg-1ubuntu4.diff.gz
> 
> Yes, but the net result of this change is that now the autopkgtest fails by
> running out of memory during the package build at test time, which is why I
> haven't submitted a better patch to the BTS.
> 
> I think the ideal here would be to either have a way to generate just the
> single data file we need for the tests, or to capture that file from the
> package build and ship it in a binary package, so that we don't have to do a
> full rebuild during the autopkgtests.

The file is generated during configure, not build.

As proof of concept, it works to do

override_dh_auto_test: $(subst .t.in,.deb.t,$(wildcard tests/src/cram/pb*.t.in))
ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
	dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=meson
...


cu
Adrian

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