Bug#265212: advi: FTBFS alpha: strange build failure

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:28:15AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Package: advi
> Version: 1.5.2+cvs-2004.07.27
> Severity: serious
> Justification: no longer builds from source
> 
> Hi,
> 
> attached the debuild log from advi. Don't know why it suddenly fails on
> alpha when it worked everywhere else.
> 
> MfG
> 	Goswin
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: alpha
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-rc3
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is advi
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.5.2+cvs-2004.07.27-2
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is alpha
>  fakeroot debian/rules clean
> test -d debian/patched || install -d debian/patched
> dpatch  apply-all  
> applying patch build to ./ ... ok.
> applying patch japanese-fonts to ./ ... ok.
> applying patch cache_dir2 to ./ ... ok.
> dpatch  cat-all  >>patch-stampT
> mv -f patch-stampT patch-stamp
> #for i in doc/manual.dvi doc/manual.ps doc/manual.pdf doc/splash.dvi test/background.dvi test/color.dvi test/demo.dvi test/demo2.dvi test/demo_raw.dvi test/jpdemo.dvi test/trans.dvi test/trans2.dvi test/trans3.dvi test/trigo_source.dvi; do /bin/cp -f $i $i.back; done
> touch backup-stamp
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> rm -f build-stamp opt-built-stamp
> /usr/bin/make veryclean
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mrvn/build/advi/advi-1.5.2+cvs-2004.07.27'
> Makefile:20: Makefile.config: No such file or directory
> Makefile:274: .depend: No such file or directory
> dep *.mli config.ml misc.ml timeout.ml ageometry.ml options.ml rc.ml userfile.ml graphicsY11.ml global_options.ml busy.ml gradient.ml gterm.ml launch.ml dvicolor.ml shot.ml laser_pointer.ml symbol.ml input.ml table.ml pkfont.ml ttfont.ml jfm.ml search.ml font.ml glyph.ml devfont.ml units.ml dimension.ml dvi.ml drawimage.ml gs.ml transimpl.ml embed.ml grdev.ml addons.ml scratch.ml cdvi.ml driver.ml thumbnails.ml dviview.ml main.ml > .depend
> /bin/sh: dep: command not found

Here is the error, it should be ocamldep, not dep.

which means that the dependencies are not correctly generated.

Normally CAML is set in Makefile.config, which is included at the start of
Makefile. Can you have a look of why this don't hapen ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther