Package: libgpg-error-dev Version: 1.10-1 Severity: wishlist User: crossbu...@debian.org Usertags: cross
libgpg-error-dev ships its own gpg-error-config program which dependent packages are supposed to use. Unfortunately this doesn't play particularly well with standard cross-build setups; nothing knows that per-architecture versions of gpg-error-config need to be installed in some kind of per-architecture path, so if you try to cross-build anything that build-depends on libgpg-error-dev (such as libgcrypt11) it fails because it tries to link against libgpg-error libraries for the architecture you're building on rather than the architecture you're building for. While it might be possible to add a pile of special-case code to cross-building systems to handle gpg-error-config specially, it would be much simpler if libgpg-error-dev would just provide a pkg-config file. pkg-config is already set up to be friendly to cross-building, cross-building tools already know to set the appropriate environment variable to tell it what to do, and this way we only have to do the work once. Do you think you could discuss this with upstream? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
