[Debichem-devel] Bug#841096: espresso: FTBFS (make install fails)

Graham Inggs ginggs at debian.org
Fri Nov 11 07:26:47 UTC 2016


Hi Santiago

On 9 November 2016 at 18:38, Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es> wrote:
> There are severl problems here:
>
> * The directory "test-suite" should be excluded but it isn't.
>
> * The output of "find" depends on filesystem ordering, it may be anything.
>
> * The "cp" commands are concatenated using ";" and not "&&", which means
> an intermediate "cp" command may fail as far as it's not the last one.
>
> * If we are unlucky enough that "test-suite" is the last one, the whole
> "install" target will fail, because copying a directory gives an error.

Thank you for your perseverance with this bug.

> The attached patch should probably work, it just ensures that the
> "test-suite" directory is excluded from the output of "find".
>
> I think it would be very good if you could forward this upstream so
> that they fix the Makefile.

Thanks also for the patch!

Regards
Graham



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