tag 180128 - patch thanks The bulk of the patch is now out of date but rather than spend time updating the patch, work is ongoing to merge the existing dpkg-cross package (which includes all the cache values and architecture support) into dpkg itself, sometime after Lenny.
dpkg-buildpackage -a is working due to other bug fixes in dpkg (>= 1.14.17) and the use of dpkg-cross. The idea behind this bug is still open but the patch itself is too out of date to be useful (not the fault of the submitter), other methods are being followed to achieve the long term goal and a working solution does already exist. Far better, in my view, to remove the 'patch' tag from this report, keep it open as wishlist and I'll merge it with the eventual bug report that implements an updated patch (arranged with Guillem) that fully merges dpkg-cross into dpkg and then remove dpkg-cross (and apt-cross) from unstable. The main issue unresolved in this bug report is the mapping of /usr/lib/foo.so to /usr/arm-linux-gnu/lib/foo.so for packages that do not use pkg-config (e.g. I'm having upstream problems trying to configure a package that build-depends on Postgres and ODBC using pg_config and iodbc-config respectively). dpkg-cross implements a workaround solution (gccross) but the real fix is getting exec-prefix support in such config scripts and in other situations where a package build mistakenly looks in /usr/lib/ during a cross-build due to some problem with FOO_LIBS settings. A variation of that bug is internal libraries within packages (either where the package builds a library and a binary or builds more than one library and one library depends on at least one of the others). gccross assists in this situation too but, again, upstream support will be needed for some of these packages. Support for removing dpkg-cross entirely is therefore far from complete (even without considering the other use of dpkg-cross in making the -cross packages available in /usr/arm-linux-gnu/lib in the first place) and the patch in this bug report is certainly insufficient (and was when originally posted IMHO). More information on dpkg-cross, apt-cross, cross-building in general and issues relating to how Debian can be made easier to cross-build, see http://www.emdebian.org/ Just in the last few weeks, it has become possible to track the cross-builds of packages in Emdebian - 230 source packages are currently supported with manual builds, maybe 60% will cross-build without intervention and this proportion will increase over time. (The main purpose of the autobuilder so far is simply to make the build logs available and help me find the packages that need fixes.) http://www.emdebian.org/buildd/ -- Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
