On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:58:57AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, 11:30 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net wrote:
>
> > Adrian Bunk:
> > > Package: debhelper
> > > Version: 11.5.2
> > > Severity: serious
> > >
> > >
> > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/apcupsd.html
> > >
> > > ...
> > > dh clean --with autoreconf
> > > dh_auto_clean
> > > make V=1 -j16 clean
> > > make[1]: Entering directory '/build/1st/apcupsd-3.14.14'
> > > 1find . -depth \
> > > \( -name -o -name -o -name \*.a \) \
> > > -exec " CLEAN" \{\} \; -exec \{\} \;
> > > /bin/sh: 1: 1find: not found
> > > make[1]: *** [autoconf/targets.mak:98: clean] Error 127
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/apcupsd/3.14.14-2/autoconf/targets.mak/#L98
> > >
> > >
> > > Using V=1 for getting verbose build output is a relatively
> > > recent convention followed by some software.
> > >
> > > It is not something that is safe to use everywhere.
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Adding Luca to this report as it affect a change by Luca.
> >
> > @Luca: What is your take on this? Should we roll back on this, guard it
> > by a compat level or something else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~Niels
> >
>
> Hi Niels and Adrian,
Hi Luca,
> Before considering other options, would using VERBOSE=1 instead of V=1
> work? I'm afk until later today so I can't check right now if gmake accepts
> it, iirc it does but I could be confusing it with other tools.
make happily accepts them, but this misses the problem.
None of these options is supported directly by make.
make just passes such options to the package-specific
Makefile that might do something or nothing with them.
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
cu
Adrian
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