Never mind, that command did reproduce the problem after all; I just thought otherwise at first because t_coffee ran for a while before reporting failure.
-- Aaron "Aaron M. Ucko" <u...@debian.org> writes: > Hi, Andreas. > > This failure is due entirely to the autobuilders' configuration, which > supplies a nominal home directory path of /sbuild-nonexistent because > package builds should ignore users' actual home directories. As such, > an automatic build on amd64 (for a binNMU, or to enforce a strict policy > of discarding uploaded binaries) would suffer the same fate. > > I had hoped to reproduce the problem on my amd64 system by running > > svn-buildpackage --svn-builder=debuild -e HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent > > but that proved insufficient, presumably because I still had a valid > home-directory entry in the passwd database. > > -- Aaron > > Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> writes: > >> Hi Aaron, >> >> thanks for your bug report. I wonder whether you could test this at you >> site and add this variable to the line ind debian/rules starting with >> >> env DIALIGN2_DIR=/usr/share/dialign EMBOSS_ROOT=/usr/lib/emboss >> >> since the problem you reported does not occure on amd64 I can just wild >> guess and it would be great if you could test it on an architecture >> where this problem actually occures. >> >> It would be sufficient if you simply commit the change to SVN and I can >> upload your tested patch. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Andreas. >> >> On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 11:09:52PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >>> Source: python-biopython >>> Version: 1.63+dfsg-1 >>> Severity: serious >>> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the >>> past) >>> >>> Builds of python-biopython on the autobuilders, which decline to >>> provide home directories, have been failing: >>> >>> ApplicationError: Command 't_coffee -infile Fasta/fa01' returned non-zero >>> exit status 135, '--ERROR: : Could not set a HOME directory.Set any of the >>> following environement variables to some suitable location: HOME, >>> HOME_4_TCOFFEE, TMP or TEMP [FATAL:T-COFFEE]' >>> >>> and likewise for the other two t_coffee tests. Please arrange to >>> point one of those variables to a temporary directory in the build >>> tree. >>> >>> Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
