Not building immediately as Ubuntu PPA on Launchpad

[killerswan]

Tomorrow I'll try to get to the bottom of this...

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configure: inspecting environment
configure: recreating config.tmp
configure: 
configure: processing /build/buildd/rust-0.5/configure args
configure: 
configure: CFG_PREFIX           := /usr 
configure: CFG_LOCAL_RUST_ROOT  := /usr/local 
configure: CFG_LLVM_ROOT        :=  
configure: CFG_HOST_TRIPLE      := x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 
configure: CFG_TARGET_TRIPLES   := x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 
configure: 
configure: validating /build/buildd/rust-0.5/configure args
configure: 
configure: error: Option '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' is not recognized
dh_auto_configure: ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/rust --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking returned exit code 1
make: *** [build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20121222-0507
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
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From:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/126442293/buildlog_ubuntu-quantal-amd64.rust_0.5-1~quantal_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

[catamorphism]

Is this still an issue?

[killerswan]

"Tomorrow", pshaw. Sorry, @catamorphism.

[killerswan]

I believe the problem is simply that none of the following are valid arguments to ./configure right now:

--build=x86_64-linux-gnu
--includedir=${prefix}/include
--mandir=${prefix}/share/man
--infodir=${prefix}/share/info
--sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var
--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/rust
--disable-maintainer-mode
--disable-dependency-tracking

I'm tempted to can add an ignoreopt() function to accept these and just ignore them, and see how that works...

[pnkfelix]

I think this is a case of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." ==> "well, don't do that."

If it is important that we support these flags in our configure script (e.g. for the use case of Ubuntu PPA), please feel free to reopen and/or provide more details on what we need there.