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

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:14:40PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 08:14 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> > Thanks! I see now that it's trying to write logs into ~/.gEDA which won't 
> > work with an unwritable/non-existent $HOME.
> 
> Perhaps we will be able to fix this upstream (for 1.6.1?).
> 
> Hamish.. is there any way we can work around the issue for the 1.6.0
> build? Can we export a temporary $HOME somewhere in the build tree
> whilst the tests are run?

Yes I think that would be the best solution for now.


Hamish