Bug#736481: nettoe: FTBFS due to test suite failures

[Aníbal Monsalve Salazar]

On Wed, 2014-03-26 14:51:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 03/26/2014 14:39, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>> --- nettoe-1.5/debian/changelog	2014-01-10 11:39:53.000000000 +0000
>> +++ nettoe-1.5/debian/changelog	2014-03-25 12:39:27.000000000 +0000
>> @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
>> +nettoe (1.5-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
>> +
>> +  * Non-maintainer upload.
>> +  * If TERM isn't defined, pass --without-terminfo to configure
>> +    Patch by Dejan Latinovic
>> +    Closes: #736481
>> +
>> + -- Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal at debian.org>  Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:38:31 +0000
> 
> Changing options passed to ./configure depending on the build
> environment looks fairly wrong to me.
> 
> Ansgar

Hello Ansgar,

Sorry I didn't reply earlier.

The objective of ./configure is to change the build/compile settings
dependending on the environment. 

If you object Dejan's patch, there is another approach. To set TERM to
to some value like linux, xterm, unknow, etc, to pass `make
check-TESTS`. But that could be wrong.

Mats Erik Andersson, upstream author of Nettoe said the "FTBFS is caused
by a build environment lacking a defined TERM".  The way to tell
./configure that TERM is not defined is to pass --without-terminfo to it.

We decided that it was better to pass --without-terminfo to ./configure
than to set TERM to something that could be incorrect.

What do you think about all that?

Regards,

Aníbal
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