[Debichem-devel] Bug#722511: Bug#722511: Bug#722511: FTBFS: maximum path length limited to 65 chars

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:40:39PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > Building nwchem in a clean chroot resulted in the following surprising build
> > failure:
> > 
> > ...
> > Making libraries in basis
> >  
> > The directory name chosen for NWCHEM_TOP is longer than 
> > the maximum allowed value of 65 characters
> >       current NWCHEM_TOP=/srv/jenkins-workspace/find-asm-atomics-pthread-nwchem/nwchem-6.1/src equal to 1 characters
> > please chose a directory with a shorter name
> > E.g., setenv NWCHEM_TOP /home/nwchem_user/nwchem
> > make[3]: *** [errorlongpwd] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [libraries] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/srv/jenkins-workspace/find-asm-atomics-pthread-nwchem/nwchem-6.1/src'
> > make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
> > 
> > A path length limit of 65 characters is questionable at best.
> 
> I agree, but I am not convinced this is release critical, as long as it
> builds on the autobuilders and users can still build it with a shorter
> build path.

I had a look at this again, and it seems there is an environment
variable NWCHEM_LONG_PATHS one can set so that NWCHEM_TOP is allowed to
be up to 200 characters.  I will look into doing this.


Michael