[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#561906: Bug#561906: FTBFS: make[5]: *** [tests] Error 1

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish at debian.org> (21/12/2009):
> This is a mystery to us and to upstream. The tests are comparing the
> output of the gsymcheck program with pre-prepared output via
> diff. From the diff output it looks like the newly built gsymcheck
> is producing no output at all.
> 
> It behaves ok in pbuilder, and in a regular build tree built as both
> a normal user with fakeroot, and as root.
> 
> Are there any other environment differences on the autobuilders that
> we should be aware of that may help? Is the build log capturing
> stderr, or do we need to modify the package build scripts to
> redirect stderr to stdout?

Usual suspects:
 - HOME being set to a non-existing directory, or even more tricky: to
   a directory which exists but which isn't writable.
 - no net access.

In this case, I was able to trigger a successful build on my
kfreebsd-i386 porterbox with “debuild -B”, and a failed build with
“HOME=/foo debuild -B”.

Happy fixing. ;)

Mraw,
KiBi.
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