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

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

Le Saturday 07 March 2009 20:18:48 Ralf Treinen, vous avez écrit :
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:47:11PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> > Romain Beauxis a écrit :
> > > [...dh_install failure because of missing *.a files...]
> > > Was there any kind of change in the behaviour of dh_install ?
> >
> > AFAICT, dh_install has always failed with wildcards which doesn't expand
> > to anything.
>
> Isn't that a "feature" of bash, that *.a expands to literally "*.a"
> in case there is no match, instead of expanding to the empty string,
> as one would expect?

I don't know, but it makes it very awkward. For instance:
  *.a *.cm* META *.ml*
will be semantically different to:
 *a
 *.cm*
 META
 *.ml*

Which I find very unfortunate...


Romain