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

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:23:38PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> 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*

I think the wildcard expansion of GNU-make $(wildcard *.a) behaves
differently, see sections 4.4.2 and 4.4.3 of the make documentation.

-Ralf.