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

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:45:43AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 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.
> 
> It is a real mystery to me.. the build works fine here. The clean chroot
> test is pretty definitive, right?

Yes. The only other differences would be due to different package
versions or a permissions issue of some sort.

It appears that gsymcheck didn't produce any output for any test judging
by the diff output in the build log. 

> 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?

I'm not sure if this would be ok with the buildd operators. I'll have to
ask.

> Presumably the autobuilder just cleans up after the failed build.

Yes although it doesn't blow away the whole chroot like pbuilder, the
build-deps are uninstalled and the temporary sources deleted.


Hamish