Bug#424253: shishi: FTBFS if built twice in a row

[Simon Josefsson]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin Zobel-Helas <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Lucas Nussbaum has rebuilt the whole archive on i386 and your package
>> FTBFS if built twice in a row with the following error:
>
>> dh_installudev -pshishi-common 
>> dh_install -pshishi-common  
>> dh_link -pshishi-common  
>> dh_installdocs -pshishi-doc ./README ./NEWS ./AUTHORS ./THANKS doc/shishi.ps 
>> doc/shishi.pdf doc/shishi.html 
>> cp: cannot stat `doc/shishi.ps': No such file or directory
>> dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256
>> make: *** [binary-install/shishi-doc] Error 1
>> ******************************************************************************
>> Build finished at 20070515-1513
>> FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
>> #### END OF BUILD NO 2 ####
>
> Not sure what's going on here.  Clearly something in the clean rule
> deleted doc/shishi.ps so that it's missing the second time around, but I
> don't know what.

It appears to be the default autoconf/automake rules that interacts
badly with the EXTRA_DIST=shishi.ps.  A './configure && make clean' in a
fresh Shishi directory will remove doc/shishi.ps, which seems
suboptimal.

I'll ask for help on the automake list.

/Simon