Bug#907158: mpi-testsuite: FTBFS in buster/sid (ln: failed to create symbolic link)

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: severity -1 important

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:03:54AM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
>...
> for i in `find . -name "testlist" | grep -v ^..build`; 		\
> do								\
>   if [ ! -e build-openmpi/$i ];				\
>   then								\
>     ln -s `pwd`/$i `pwd`/build-openmpi/$i;			\
>   fi;								\
> done
> ln: failed to create symbolic link '/<<BUILDDIR>>/mpi-testsuite-3.2+dfsg/build-openmpi/./.pc/disable_large_tests.patch/group/testlist': No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [debian/rules:16: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/mpi-testsuite-3.2+dfsg'
> make: *** [debian/rules:7: build-arch] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch subprocess returned exit status 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I don't know why it does not fail in the same way in reproducible builds,
> but it is easy to see why it fails for me: The find command is finding
> things inside the .pc directory used by quilt and friends. I would do
> something like "find *" instead, if that's enough for the intended purpose.

This message is "normal", it is even in the arm64 build that just 
succeeded on a buildd.

I don't know what actually causes your build failure,
but this does not seem to be a problem on the buildds.

> Thanks.

cu
Adrian

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