[Pkg-electronics-devel] geda-gaf build failures

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 10:15 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> The autobuilders have all failed to build geda-gaf:
> https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=geda-gaf
> 
> Although I build it in a clean chroot (pbuilder) so that is surprising.
> It appears that the gsymcheck tests have all failed.
> 
> Any suggestions Peter?
> 
> Hamish

It is a real mystery to me.. the build works fine here. The clean chroot
test is pretty definitive, right?

I guess there must be some difference in packages installed on the
auto-builders, perhaps a missing build-dep. That said.. I can't imagine
what it might be.

I've been through running the tests with both bash and dash as
my /bin/sh, and didn't get anywhere.

I suspect we may need to reproduce this on a system I can actually debug
on. If even a pbuilder chroot works, then that doesn't sound like it
will be easy.


Is it possibly (easy?) to patch the build system up to tarball the
entire build directory, and email / ssh copy it to somewhere we can
disect it after it fails?

Presumably the autobuilder just cleans up after the failed build.