Bug#736481: nettoe: FTBFS due to test suite failures

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Wed Mar 26 22:26:26 UTC 2014


Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal at debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2014-03-26 14:51:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> Changing options passed to ./configure depending on the build
>> environment looks fairly wrong to me.
>
> The objective of ./configure is to change the build/compile settings
> dependending on the environment.

However source packages in Debian should *not* change depending on the
environment they are built in. Passing different options to ./configure
depending on the environment does the exact opposite...

> If you object Dejan's patch, there is another approach. To set TERM to
> to some value like linux, xterm, unknow, etc, to pass `make
> check-TESTS`. But that could be wrong.
>
> Mats Erik Andersson, upstream author of Nettoe said the "FTBFS is caused
> by a build environment lacking a defined TERM".  The way to tell
> ./configure that TERM is not defined is to pass --without-terminfo to it.
>
> We decided that it was better to pass --without-terminfo to ./configure
> than to set TERM to something that could be incorrect.

Well, then just always pass --without-terminfo to it?

Ansgar



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