Bug#743115: getfem++: FTBFS: Trying to write outside build dir

[David Suárez]

Source: getfem++
Version: 4.2.1~beta1~svn4482~dfsg-3
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20140329 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[6]: Entering directory `/build/getfem++-kHFJR5/getfem++-4.2.1~beta1~svn4482~dfsg/interface/src/scilab'
> SCI_DISABLE_TK=1 SCI_JAVA_ENABLE_HEADLESS=1 scilab -nw -nb -f /build/getfem++-kHFJR5/getfem++-4.2.1~beta1~svn4482~dfsg/interface/src/scilab/makefile_builder.sce
> Error: Impossible to define SCIHOME environment variable.
>  
>  Failed to execute SCI/modules/preferences/etc/preferences.start:   
>  
>  xmlWrite: Cannot write the file: /sbuild-nonexistent/.Scilab/scilab-branch-mas 
>       ter/XConfiguration.xml                                                    
> make[6]: *** [all] Error 2

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2014/03/29/getfem++_4.2.1~beta1~svn4482~dfsg-3_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.