Bug#728452: opal: FTBFS if $HOME does not exist

[Eugen Dedu]

On 03/05/14 06:19, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 02:30:48PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote:
>> Version: 3.12.8~dfsg-1
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 13:47:47 Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>>> Why does it call cd with no argument?
>>
>> Thanks Andreas,
>>
>> Upstream have been mucking around with the build environment.
>
> Unfortunately, the problem is still there, it just happens only when
> sbuild is building arch:all packages, that is, the option -A is not
> passed. Buildds don't pass this option, but this bug for instance
> prevents building an NMU.
>
> I believe the problem is in
> http://sources.debian.net/src/opal/3.12.8~dfsg-1/make/toplevel.mak.in#L760
>
> Here, the makefile is trying to change to PTLIBDIR. How is this supposed
> to work?

PTLIBDIR is the directory where ptlib is installed.

As just written in previous e-mail, I do not think it is worth trying to 
fix this bug, since 3.12.8 will be replaced it 3.14 in unstable, and 
3.12 will just disappear.

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Eugen