Hello, On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:21:07 +0100 Benjamin Lorenz <lor...@math.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 11/02/2020 16.22, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Hello, looks like with TERM=unknown the testsuite fails: > > > > *** Failed tests *** > > > > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/apps/common/rules/functions_help.rules:248: testcase 1 > > expected: regular return > > got: EXCEPTION: Can't find a valid termcap file at > > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/perllib/Polymake/Core/InteractiveCommands.pm line 32. > > Thanks for the report, we will make this non-fatal in the next polymake > revision 4.0r1, probably next week. > > > I think exporting a valid TERM in rules file is something sane to do. > > This seems very reasonable, yes. > I am somewhat surprised that this did not appear in the debian package > builds, but it did for the reproducibility tests and also on ubuntu. >
this is normal, because ubuntu builders configuration is "TERM=unknown" and reproducible folks try to see if building with a different terminal produces differences in output... Probably also Debian builders should stop exporting a terminal and maintainer should do it in case they really want it... G.
