On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 00:03, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote:
> > ERROR: global config file ../testsuite/global-conf.exp not found. > > ERROR: global config file ../testsuite/global-conf.exp not found. > > ERROR: global config file ../testsuite/global-conf.exp not found. > This bug is curious for a few reasons. Why, after 10 years, has the mass-rebuild triggered it? I first thought there was something wrong with the rebuilder; surely something that has built fine since it was put in 2012 can't be at fault? I can't say why this particular build triggered it, but there is a bug in psmisc. I was comparing the psmisc and procps build systems to see why one is fine, and one is not; which brought to my attention a commit in procps in 2013[1], which removed global-conf.exp from the distribution and replaced it with /dev/null. This showed me that you either need to a) distribute the referenced file or b) use something always there, such as /dev/null. psmisc does neither of these as the configure.ac references global-conf.exp[2] It's a pretty simple change, don't use global-conf.exp but use /dev/null instead. I've got that for upstream[3] so next is the Debian package. - Craig 1: https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/f0b7271810bc7ad7c7cb15cd590d954907c8c4f4 2: https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/-/blob/c51c6fafeb01a95d1e01e5c3a3369ee8063b7384/configure.ac#L207 3: https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/-/commit/3fac667430341bdcec733da6eacd88b03813467a
