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

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 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. ;)

Thanks! I see now that it's trying to write logs into ~/.gEDA which won't 
work with an unwritable/non-existent $HOME.


Hamish