[Build-common-hackers] Bug#244692: cdbs: common-post-build-arch runs during install

Daniel Jacobowitz Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>, 244692@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:24:57 -0400


Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.21
Severity: normal

There are two spurious failures in the GDB testsuite when run under
fakeroot.  I didn't explicitly ask to run it under fakeroot, so I went
digging to find out why it happened.  Here's the problem:

# This rule is for stuff to run after the build process.  Typically
# this will be things like 'make check'.
common-post-build-arch:: common-build-arch $(patsubst %,build/%,$(DEB_ARCH_PACKAGES))

common-install-arch:: testdir common-install-prehook-arch common-post-build-arch

So nothing in "build" causes common-post-build-arch to run, making it
essentially identical to common-install-prehook-arch.  If someone were to
build using -rsudo (does anyone do that any more?), this could be a real
problem - you'd be running the testsuite with root priviledges unexpectedly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-nevyn
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

-- no debconf information

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer