Bug#846312: vim package fails to build with missing man files

David Barnett davidbarnett2 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 02:17:19 UTC 2016


I did notice the apparent duplication in the path, but I'm not seeing any
evidence that any commands in a define'd variables like that get executed,
e.g. if I change them to "echo blah", "/bin/false", or a bunch of
non-syntactically-valid gibberish.

David

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 7:28 PM James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org> wrote:

> That implies that $(DESTDIR) is being set to debian/tmp/debian/tmp.
> $(DESTDIR) is set by the line:
>
>     install-stamp-indep: DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
>
> so is $(CURDIR) somehow debian/tmp when install-stamp-indep is run?
>
> > The issue here seems to be that the munge-man-directories helper in
> debian/
> > rules is not getting invoked, those directory moves are skipped, and
> there is
> > no man/ru/ directory at the expected path (only man/ru.UTF-8/ and
> man/ru.KOI8-R
> > /, which never got moved/deleted).
>
> I'm not sure that's actually the case.  It seems to be related to the
> above problem.  It's odd that you're encountering this but it's not
> being hit elsewhere.
>
> Is it somehow being evaluated twice or $(CURDIR) being carried over into
> the sub-make which then expands?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> James
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