Re: buildds: Using LD_PRELOAD & LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2021-12-06 08:50 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> I am staring at:
>
> * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001136
>
> One can verify that sh4 build went fine for this upload:
>
> * https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openvdb&arch=sh4&ver=9.0.0-3&stamp=1638662998&raw=0
>
> It should be noticed that, this is a duplicate of:
>
> * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997080
>
> As mentioned in the above:
>
> [...]
> I cannot reproduce the issue:
> * On my local sid schroot,
> * On barriere.d.o
> * The exp. buildds are working as expected:
> ** https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openvdb&arch=amd64&ver=9.0.0-2&stamp=1638489598&raw=0
> [...]
>
> Could someone please confirm if the following command line invocation
> is acceptable in d/rules within buildds environment:
>
> [...]
> debian/vdb_print.1: debian/vdb_print.1.in
>         LD_PRELOAD= LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) \
>           help2man --version-string=$(VER_FULL) --include=$<
> --output=$@ --no-info \
>           --no-discard-stderr ./debian/tmp/usr/bin/vdb_print
> [...]

Your debian/rules file looks incorrect to me, the
override_dh_install-arch target requires to generate the manpages with
help2man _before_ installing the libraries into
/debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH), so setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
rather useless.

Cheers,
       Sven