Tracking down scons FTBFS issues.

[Michael Bienia]

On 2007-05-16 12:55:43 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> If that's what it is, you'll probably need to look at config.log to find out
> what's wrong; one way to debug this type of failure is to do something
> analogous to:
> 
> ./configure ... || (cat config.log; false)

I've done it for xmms2 already which uses also scons to build and fails
only on the Ubuntu buildds (but builds fine in a pbuilder and in
Debian).

The result was that the environment had a HASH(0x82db558)="" (the hex
value differs between builds) which /bin/sh didn't like and errors out
which scons interprets as not found.

After consulting #ubuntu-devel I got told that this it probably a bug in
the sbuild on the buildds and that I should ask Adam Conrad about it.
I contacted him and told him about this problem and wait now till he
finds some time to look at it and fix it.
I've also already opened a bug about it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-buildd/+bug/87077

I assume that other packages using scons trigger this bug also and that
at least aqsis and a package I already forgot have probably the same
problem (I didn't upload a new version to get the config.log to confirm
it).

Michael