Re: Bug#216492: FTBFS (unstable/all) missing build-dep
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:51, Adam Conrad wrote:
[...]
>> libtool fails to build from source on all the buildds[1] due to a missing
>> build-dep on texi2html.
> libtool (and libtool1.4) *have* a build-dep on texi2html (and texinfo):
> Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.0), texi2html, texinfo
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0), file, g77 | fortran77-compiler, gcj [!hppa !mips !mipsel]
> My reading of policy suggests that this is correct:
> ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----
> `Build-Depends-Indep', `Build-Conflicts-Indep'
> The `Build-Depends-Indep' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' fields must
> be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked:
> `build', `build-indep', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
>
> [1] If you make "build-arch" or "binary-arch", you need Build-Depends. If
> you make "build-indep" or "binary-indep", you need Build-Depends and
> Build-Depends-Indep. If you make "build" or "binary", you need both.
> ---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8----
> texinfo and texi2html are used in the "build" target. As far as I can
> tell this means that the buildd should be ensuring both Build-Depends
> and Build-Depends-Indep are installed before running it.
> Have I read policy wrong, or is policy not entirely in accord with
> reality?
[...]
Afaik the latter, the buildds don't build the binary-all target and
won't install Build-Depends-Indep.
This works:
* If your package only builds arch-dependent packages, don't use
Build-Depends-Indep
* If your package only builds binary-all packages, you can choose
whether to use Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Depends. However many
packages need Build-Dependencies for the clean target (dh_clean), if
this applies you must use "Build-Depends".
* If your package builds both binary-arch and binary-all packages,
list anything needed for build, clean, build-arch and binary-arch in
"Build-Depends" and anything _additionally_ needed for binary-indep
in "Build-Depends-Indep".
It is noteworthy that the split build-arch/build-all seems to be next
to useless, as dpkg-buildpackage invokes build (because the former two
a optional) and "the build target should depend on those of the
targets build-arch and build-indep that are provided in the rules
file."
If you want to keep the buildds from running/requiring texi2html do it
in the binary-all target.
cu andreas
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