On 4 June 2018 at 15:28, Graham Inggs wrote: | On 04/06/2018 14:11, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > esp the env var it looks var (just like old make based on did) we can do | > this | > | > https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-rmpi/blob/master/debian/rules#L7 | > | > That may work. I should report it upstream either way. | | Adding the following to debian/rules worked on the mipsel porterbox | (fbasics still uses CDBS):
Thinko on my part: I am updating only 'Binary: all'; may take me a moment to get to (all) of the 'Binary: any'. But I make sure I hit this one this evening when I get home. | extraInstallFlags="--no-byte-compile" | | I uploaded that to the Ubuntu PPA builders and it built on arm64 and | ppc64el as well. I also tried building fgarch, which depends on | fbasics, and it built too. | | So thank you, this seems to be the solution! I will upload to Ubuntu | proper now and keep an eye on the rest of fbasics' dependants. I'll let | you know how it goes. Awesome. I'll do the same here, starting with fBasics -- and we add as needed. One though though; should we not make that $ARCH dependent? | > Do we (or do "you" at Canonical) give guest accounts on these? I think I | > once did a loooong time ago for mips or mipsel or ... | | Guest access for Debian porterboxes can be requested [1]. I don't know | about Ubuntu, I think it may be for employees only. I had forgotten about the guest accounts. I guess I once made use of that for an upstream of one of those "sometime hairy" package like rserve or rJava or ... Thanks for the heads-up and quick test. Truly appreciated. Dirk | | | [1] https://dsa.debian.org/doc/guest-account/ -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
