Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <ani...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, 2014-03-26 14:51:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Changing options passed to ./configure depending on the build >> environment looks fairly wrong to me. > > The objective of ./configure is to change the build/compile settings > dependending on the environment.
However source packages in Debian should *not* change depending on the environment they are built in. Passing different options to ./configure depending on the environment does the exact opposite... > If you object Dejan's patch, there is another approach. To set TERM to > to some value like linux, xterm, unknow, etc, to pass `make > check-TESTS`. But that could be wrong. > > Mats Erik Andersson, upstream author of Nettoe said the "FTBFS is caused > by a build environment lacking a defined TERM". The way to tell > ./configure that TERM is not defined is to pass --without-terminfo to it. > > We decided that it was better to pass --without-terminfo to ./configure > than to set TERM to something that could be incorrect. Well, then just always pass --without-terminfo to it? Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
