[cl-debian] Bug#397987: sbcl: FTBFS: doc generation fails

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:23, Julien Danjou wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:48:29AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> > > In the backtrace of 
> > > > > unhandled SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR in thread 
> #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "initial thread" {A685791}>:
> > > > >   The file "/nonexistent/" does not exist.
> > > > > 

> > I did not see that. It seems it tries to use $HOME, but it should not.

> Ah. asdf _always_ used $HOME, and as the extentions are build using asdf it 
> will touch it. There was another bug that boiled down to that: 395156 ($HOME 
> was on a NFS share with squash-root set, installing clisp will fail).

> If this is the cause of the problem the only thing I can do it set $HOME to 
> some value (/tmp or something) in debian/rules. Changing asdf would risk 
> making it too incompatible with the standard version...

> Is this an acceptable solution?

Yes.  Best of all would be to set HOME to a directory you've created under
the build tree, and clean it up in the clean target.

Cheers,
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