On 05/03/17 16:19, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > But there isn't a lot I can do
well, you could create the directory in the clean target.. and keep track of that by using find -type d -empty or so.. (yes, rather anyoing) > -- besides using my upstream bugzilla account > and filing this as https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17266 thanks ;) also there's another funny one: if you name the directory of the source tree something containing a tilde (in my case, 3.4.0-1~dschinn1 for my local stretch backport), then it FTBFS too. Regards, Daniel
