Bug#298257: tetex-bin: [ARM] FTBFS on experimental?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Kenshi Muto <kmuto@debian.org> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.99.12.20050203-beta-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: experimental
>
> I put tetex-bin 2.99.12.20050203-beta-1 to my arm buildd queue.

Thank you for trying!

> As you mentioned ago, I installed tetex-base 2.99.9.20050111-beta-2.
>
> Unfortunatelly build process looked go infinite loop.
>
> test -e ../../tetex-common/common.variables && \
>   test ../../tetex-common/common.variables -nt debian/common.variables && \
>   touch -t `ls -l --time-style=+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S ../../tetex-common/common.variables | \
>     sed -e 's@.*[[:alpha:]]*[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]] \([[:digit:].]*\) \.\./.*@\1@'` debian/common.variables_newer || true
> test -e ../../tetex-common/common.functions.in && \
>   test ../../tetex-common/common.functions.in -nt debian/common.functions.in && \
>   touch -t `ls -l --time-style=+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S ../../tetex-common/common.functions.in | \
>     sed -e 's@.*[[:alpha:]]*[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]] \([[:digit:].]*\) \.\./.*@\1@'` debian/common.functions_newer || true
> eperl -P -o debian/rules debian/rules.in
> test -e ../../tetex-common/common.variables && \
>   test ../../tetex-common/common.variables -nt debian/common.variables && \
>   touch -t `ls -l --time-style=+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S ../../tetex-common/common.variables | \
>     sed -e 's@.*[[:alpha:]]*[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]] \([[:digit:].]*\) \.\./.*@\1@'` debian/common.variables_newer || true
> test -e ../../tetex-common/common.functions.in && \
>   test ../../tetex-common/common.functions.in -nt debian/common.functions.in && \
>   touch -t `ls -l --time-style=+%Y%m%d%H%M.%S ../../tetex-common/common.functions.in | \
>     sed -e 's@.*[[:alpha:]]*[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]] \([[:digit:].]*\) \.\./.*@\1@'` debian/common.functions_newer || true
> eperl -P -o debian/rules debian/rules.in
>  ...
>
> Full log (before I killed) is:
> http://experimental.ftbfs.de/fetch.php?&pkg=tetex-bin&ver=2.99.12.20050203-beta-1&arch=arm&stamp=1110038196&file=log&as=raw
>
> Hmm, Is this buildd's time problem? buildd is working with UTC clock.

I'm not sure, but in fact it seems it must have something to do with
timestamps.  As you probably noticed, debian/rules is re-made via
Makefile-remaking from debian/rules.in, and after this make starts
over.  But on my system, it does it only once.

I'll investigate this,

Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer