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

[Balint Reczey]

Hi Eugen,

On Sat, 03 May 2014 15:59:46 -0400 Reinhard Tartler
<siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
> Control: notfound -1 3.10.10~dfsg-2.1
> Control: found -1 3.12.8~dfsg-1
> 
> On 03.05.2014 13:59, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Ok, I'm updating the version info for this bug accordingly then.
Since May there have ben several stable releases starting with 3.14.0.
It would be nice if the package could be updated before the freeze.

Cheers,
Balint