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

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

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:15:36PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On 12/08/2004-09:45, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > <snip the beginning of the build log>
> > if [ -x /usr/bin/ocamlopt.opt ]; then \
> > 	echo "Building the native code version with the native compilers"; \
> >         /usr/bin/make HAVE_OPT=".opt" opt; \
> > 	touch opt-built-stamp; \
> > else if [ -x /usr/bin/ocamlopt ]; then \
> > 	echo "Building the native code version"; \
> >         /usr/bin/make HAVE_OPT="" opt; \
> > 	touch opt-built-stamp; \
> > else \
> > 	echo "Building the bytecode version"; \
> >         /usr/bin/make byte; \
> > fi fi
> > Building the native code version with the native compilers
> 
> Ok, here is where it differs from the build log at 
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=advi&ver=1.5.2%2Bcvs-2004.07.27-2&arch=i386&stamp=1091989825&file=log&as=raw.
> The last line of the Makefile is "include .depend", which normally 
> causes a regeneration of this file. However, here it what "info make" 
> say about included Makefiles:
> |   If the specified name does not start with a slash, and the file is
> |not found in the current directory, several other directories are
> |searched.  First, any directories you have specified with the `-I' or
> |`--include-dir' option are searched (*note Summary of Options: Options
> |Summary.).  Then the following directories (if they exist) are
> |searched, in this order: `PREFIX/include' (normally `/usr/local/include'
> |(1)) `/usr/gnu/include', `/usr/local/include', `/usr/include'.
> 
> My guess is that one of these files exist on your system, and the 
> ".depend" rule of advi's Makefile is never called. The safe way would be 
> to explicitely run make .depend before building advi.

Goswin, can you test this by adding the $(MAKE) .depend below to the
debian/rules file ? 

build: build-stamp
build-stamp: patch-stamp config.status
        dh_testdir

        $(MAKE) .depend
        if [ -x /usr/bin/ocamlopt.opt ]; then \
                echo "Building the native code version with the native compilers"; \
                $(MAKE) HAVE_OPT=".opt" opt; \
	...

If you confirm this works, i will make a new upload of advi that fixes this
issue.

Friendly,

Sven Luther