Bug#459712: build-conflicts with its own runtime

[Faidon Liambotis]

Kilian Krause wrote:
>> In the case that it is, how would you feel about making the sample 
>> build/run conditional on the presence of libpt in the build system?
> 
> Well, it was very much needed as a precaution in the past - especially on
> the non-trivial architectures. Doing a conditional test without enforcing it
> to FTBFS the package would just reintroduce that harm with a very low bar to
> jump over. If you think it is seriously needed we should add the
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS switch and conditionalize it in there - or plain not run
> it at all.
I wasn't specific enough about the conditional:
What I meant was, skipping the tests altogether if 
/usr/lib/libpt.so.1.10.1 is found.

That way, it'll do the runtime test on clean chroots but skip it in 
development environments, which is much better than having a 
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

Any objections to that?

Regards,
Faidon