[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:
> 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”.

Hmm, so I set HOME= a temporary directory under $(PWD), but it's failed
too because $(PWD) was not the root of the unpacked source tree.. I'm
really confused about how dpkg-buildpackage is being called?


Hamish