Re: conditional dh-install (--same-arch does not always work)

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

Quoting Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:39 AM, George Danchev<danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
> > Quoting Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > [Sorry I was not subscribed when I got the answer from George Danchev]
> > >
> > > So anyway I tried the --same-arch flag and it *seems* to be working on
> > > alpha (there is no log reporting failure), but it clearly does not
> > > work on armel:
> > >
> > > Here is a copy of the control file:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Package: libgdcm-cil
> > > Section: cli-mono
> > > Architecture: i386 lpia kfreebsd-i386 powerpc amd64 kfreebsd-amd64
> > > ia64 arm armeb sparc s390
> >
> > you still have armel specified in the architecture of libvtkgdcm-cil package
> > section, while you don't have alpha listed for anywhere, that's why is
> > worked for alpha, but not for armel.
>
> It did not worked for alpha...
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=gdcm;ver=2.0.12-3;arch=alpha;stamp=1247121765
>
>
> dh_install   
> --sourcedir=/build/buildd-gdcm_2.0.12-3-alpha-sCffwM/gdcm-2.0.12/debian/tmp
> --same-arch --fail-missing
> cp: cannot stat
> `/build/buildd-gdcm_2.0.12-3-alpha-sCffwM/gdcm-2.0.12/debian/tmp/usr/lib/gdcm-sharp.dll':
> No such file or directory
> dh_install: cp returned exit code 1
> make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/build/buildd-gdcm_2.0.12-3-alpha-sCffwM/gdcm-2.0.12'
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2

Ahem, from the above build log I can see that you also have  
DH_OPTIONS=-a, however -a, -i, -p, and -s parameters are cumulative;  
therefore you got -a and -s, while you only want -s.