ftbfs in subversion related to linker change?

[Loïc Minier]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> It doesn't appear as though sbuild has any good way to debug build failures.
> One thing that would be nice would be an option to keep the session active so
> you could schroot to it to see what's going on.  In any case, I'm trying some
> other approaches to see what happens at this point to break fakeroot.

 I didn't use it so far, but isn't it what
     $purge_build_directory="successful";
 is for in /etc/sbuild/sbuild.conf?

 According to this file, "always" is the default and will wipe your
 chroot even if the build failed.

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Loïc Minier