Re: weird behaviour with latest devscripts/dpkg-dev
> I was just building a package using `debuild'. The compile failed,
> but debuild kept building the package anyway!
>
> The build target failed, then the binary target failed, but it
> then tried to sign the changes file anyway (which did not exist).
> Can anyone tell me why this might be -- is there a bug
> in my rules file?
>
> [...]
> install -c -m 0755 -s xpdf/xpdf /local/local/src/packages/xpdf/xpdf-0.90/debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/xpdf
> install: xpdf/xpdf: No such file or directory
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> signfile xpdf_0.90-1.dsc
All debuild does is provide a nice wrapper around dpkg-buildpackage.
It is this program which does not stop if the build fails, at least in
the slink version (I haven't yet checked the potato version).
Probably worth filing a bug report against dpkg-dev if there isn't one
already.
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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