I tracked this down to two separate issues in the debian/rules file, for
which I've attached a patch.
The first issue is that the 'eval' in 6-2 wasn't quite correct:
for EXT in $$(eval echo \\$$SIZE_EXTENSIONS$$SIZE); do\
^^
There should only be one \ here (otherwise 'echo' is outputting '\10 20
35 40 50-large' instead of '$SIZE_EXTENSIONS-large').
The second problem is that the variables being exported and evaled
(SIZE_EXTENSIONS-large, etc.) contain -'s, which sh won't accept, so it
ends up with the eval being told to eval, e.g., '$SIZE_EXTENSIONS-large'
which it happily evals to 10 20 35 40 50-large instead of the intended
10 20 35 40 50 55 60 70.
The attached debian/rules patch fixes both issues (by defining the
variables with _'s instead of -'s) and makes everything build properly
-- i.e. with the proper sized dict files.
--
-- Jason Rhinelander
--- scowl-6.orig/debian/rules 2006-04-18 21:15:19.000000000 -0700
+++ scowl-6/debian/rules 2006-04-18 21:40:53.000000000 -0700
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@
# corresponding packages for wbritish and wcanadian.
# The medium size packages have no -size part in their names
# These are the scowl extensions (complexity numbers?) that contribute to each word list (i.e. each size);
-# the -size parts "-small", "", "-large", and "-huge" correspond to the end of the binary package name:
-export SIZE_EXTENSIONS-small:=10 20 35
-export SIZE_EXTENSIONS:=$(SIZE_EXTENSIONS-small) 40 50
-export SIZE_EXTENSIONS-large:=$(SIZE_EXTENSIONS) 55 60 70
-export SIZE_EXTENSIONS-huge:=$(SIZE_EXTENSIONS-large) 80
+# the size parts "small", "", "large", and "huge" correspond to the end of the binary package name:
+export SIZE_EXTENSIONS_small:=10 20 35
+export SIZE_EXTENSIONS:=$(SIZE_EXTENSIONS_small) 40 50
+export SIZE_EXTENSIONS_large:=$(SIZE_EXTENSIONS) 55 60 70
+export SIZE_EXTENSIONS_huge:=$(SIZE_EXTENSIONS_large) 80
# These are the scowl word list classes we use:
CLASSES:=words proper-names upper contractions
@@ -31,11 +31,12 @@
set -e;\
for SPELLING in american british canadian; do\
- for SIZE in -small "" -large -huge; do\
+ for SIZENAME in small "" large huge; do\
+ if [ -n "$$SIZENAME" ]; then SIZE="-$$SIZENAME"; SIZEVAR="_$$SIZENAME"; else SIZE=""; SIZEVAR=""; fi;\
echo "The following SCOWL word lists were concatenated and sorted (with duplicates" > w$$SPELLING$$SIZE.scowl-word-lists-used;\
echo "removed) to create this word list (see README.Debian for more details):" >> w$$SPELLING$$SIZE.scowl-word-lists-used;\
for CLASS in $(CLASSES); do\
- for EXT in $$(eval echo \\$$SIZE_EXTENSIONS$$SIZE); do\
+ for EXT in $$(eval echo \$$SIZE_EXTENSIONS$$SIZEVAR); do\
if [ -f final/english-$$CLASS.$$EXT ]; then\
echo "cat final/english-$$CLASS.$$EXT >> $$SPELLING-english$$SIZE.unsorted";\
cat final/english-$$CLASS.$$EXT >> $$SPELLING-english$$SIZE.unsorted;\
