On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 08:34:44AM +0000, peter green wrote: > Package: cwebx > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > cwebx failed to build on the raspbian jessie autobuilders with the following > error. The build was tried twice so I do not belive this was a fluke. > [...] > > According to wikpedia test -s checks if a file exists and has a size greater > than 0. We use btrfs on our autobuilders for space-efficient snapshotting. > Doing some testing it seems btrfs reports a size of 0 for empty directories. > So on btrfs if the directory exists and is empty the command will fail. > > I believe the correct fix is to use -e instead of -s. I have tested this on > the raspbian jessie autobuilders and got a successful build.
Hi Peter, Thanks for this! Now that jessie is released, I've uploaded a patched version. I used test -d rather than test -e, though; if $(prefix)/bin exists but is not a directory, the pipeline will then correctly fail. Best wishes, Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
