Bug#916192: defoma ftbfs from source

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: tags -1 patch

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 09:32:32AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: src:defoma
> Version: 1:0.9.18+r243-4
> Severity: serious
> 
> defoma ftbfs from source, at least on armhf and s390x (also on amd64 and i386 in
> Ubuntu with the same failure):
> 
> see https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=foma
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<BUILDDIR>>/foma-0.9.18+r243=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -std=c99 -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -Wl,-z,relro -c regex.c -o regex.o
> gcc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/<<BUILDDIR>>/foma-0.9.18+r243=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -std=c99 -fvisibility=hidden -fPIC -Wl,-z,relro -c foma.c -o foma.o
> regex.c: In function 'yyparse':
> regex.c:2779:3: error: unterminated comment
>    /* User semantic actions sometimes alter yychar, and that requires
>    ^
>...

This is a parallel build error.

The best option would be to fix the Makefile,
but sufficient to fix this bug is also the workaround

--- debian/rules.old	2019-01-07 13:35:37.541340870 +0000
+++ debian/rules	2019-01-07 13:36:02.249340635 +0000
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --fail-missing
+	dh $@ --fail-missing --no-parallel
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	touch NEWS


cu
Adrian

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