[Pkg-postgresql-private] builing with pbuilder

[Oliver Elphick]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 21:12, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> i try to build a test package in pbuilder, and it fails in the
> regression test, when initializing the database.
> 
> is this a known problem? how can i work around it?

In debian/rules, tell make to ignore the error (put a "-" in front of
the command pipeline).  The tests will still run, but the error (is it
in geometry?) will not stop the build.

test-stamp:  build-arch-stamp
        -cd $(BUILD_TREE)/src/test/regress && \
                $(MAKE) runcheck
        -cat $(BUILD-TREE)/src/test/regress/regression.diffs
        touch test-stamp

(I have uploaded this change to CVS.)

The change will also display the errors, so that we can see whether it
is a big problem or not.  I expect that it will usually be a metter of
the 8th decimal place in geometry, but we need to catch unexpected
errors.

I already changed this in 7.3.4-x because I found that all the
autobuilds failed, almost all on geometry.

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