On Wed, 2014-03-26 23:26:26 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > 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?
Okay, I'll do that. I'll prepare another NMU. Cheers.
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