Re: things broke when I went to dpkg-dev 1.4.1.6

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:06:48PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > cv-buildpackage -rfakeroot broke, and Manoj advised to use 
> > -r"fakeroot --". Maybe this is the same problem with
> > dpkg-buildpackage.
> 
> Not maybe.  It *is*.
> 
> Another workaround is to define the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT.

But be careful, as that could cause all manner of other problems where
the non-POSIX behaviour is assumed.  (Just consider echo -n, for
example....)

   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