Bug#518589: ocaml-xmlplaylist_0.1.1-3(mips/unstable): FTBFS on mips

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

	Hi !

Le Saturday 07 March 2009 11:50:57 Peter De Schrijver, vous avez écrit :
> Package: ocaml-xmlplaylist
> Version: 0.1.1-3
> Severity: serious
>
> There was an error while trying to autobuild your package:
(...)
> > dh_install -plibxmlplaylist-ocaml-dev
> > dh_install: libxmlplaylist-ocaml-dev missing files
> > (/usr/lib/ocaml/3.11.0/xmlplaylist/*.a), aborting make: ***
> > [binary-install/libxmlplaylist-ocaml-dev] Error 1

Thanks for the report. The issue is trigered because this architecture does 
not have a native compiler, hence the build does not generate any *.a file.

However, I have seen this problem before and I never really understood the 
behaviour of dh_install with this. In particular, it used to work, like for 
ocaml-lastfm:
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=ocaml-lastfm&ver=0.1.3-1&arch=mips&stamp=1221672104&file=log

In this build, no *.a file are generated, however dh_install doesn't fail. The 
liblastfm-ocaml-dev.install file is the same as 
libxmlplaylist-ocaml-dev.install for this issue: they both list *.a in the 
files to install.

Was there any kind of change in the behaviour of dh_install ?


Romain