Re: maildrop build fails: debian/rules build exit status 2, Questions about building debs

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:36:15 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

datenritter writes:

> Hi there,
>
> long time courier user here, also slightly fed up with the Debian situation.  
> We need to fix this. Anyway...
>
> I could use a little help with the build process. As I don't want to compile  
> on the production machine, I tried to create debs with the tarball-method:
>
>
> 1. Can I somehow pass options to 'configure' when running the 'courier- 
> debuild' script so I could customize my build?
> (Should I anyway? Or could I mess up the creation of debs if I did?)

Debian packaging is oriented to using a fixed set of configure options.

It might be possible to edit packaging/debian/rules and stick your configure  
options in there before running courier-debuild. Not sure if it'll work.

> 2. I have already created (and installed) debs for courier-unicode, courier- 
> authlib and courier-imap with courier-debuild -us -uc.
>
> The maildrop build runs into an error with some testsuite:

This should already be fixed in the build from the download page dated  
20231229. I've been tardy in making a new release of maildrop, I'll get to  
it soon but for now you can grab that build.

> 3. Is there a way to do this from the source you just pull from github? The  
> tarball-method looks a bit quirky to me. Maybe there's a build-deb target...?

No there isn't. The git repository does not include autotools-generated  
scripting.

It might be possible to put together an automated system that assembles the  
source tree from BOTH courier and courier-libs repositories, runs autobloat,  
runs configure with default options, then make, then make dist, which  
produces the packaged tarball, and then use the existing process starting  
with that tarball.

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