Bug#510362: dh-make-perl: should not run 'make test' under fakeroot

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:34:58 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > We can of course think about other possibilities on how to build the
> > package but in the end we always will need (fake)root privileges.
> dh-make-perl echo what dpkg-buildpackage does, namely call debian/rules
> build first and then fakeroot debian/rules binary, which will do the build
> (and hence the test) as the regular user and only obtain fake root
> privileges for the install and package build.  

Ah, that's indeed a nice idea.
Committed to the version in svn.

> Or it could even just run
> dpkg-buildpackage instead of calling the target directly.

There's a comment in the source:

    # uhmf! dpkg-genchanges doesn't cope with the deb being in another dir..
    #system("dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc " . $self->cfg->dbflags) == 0
    system("fakeroot make -C $maindir -f debian/rules clean");
    system("fakeroot make -C $maindir -f debian/rules binary") == 0
        || die "Cannot create deb package\n";

which sounds like there seemed to be some problems with
dpkg-buildpackage.

Cheers,
gregor 
 
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