Package: busybox Version: 1:1.1.3-2 Severity: serious Attempting to build busybox on sarge yields the following during build:
make[1]: Leaving directory `/busybox-1.1.3/debian/build/build-udeb' cp debian/build/build-udeb/docs/BusyBox.1 debian/build/build-udeb/docs/busybox.1 touch debian/stamps/build-udeb DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS is not a supported variable name at /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 271. DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU is not a supported variable name at /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 271. DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS is not a supported variable name at /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 271. mkdir debian/build/build-floppy-udeb cp '' debian/build/build-floppy-udeb/.config cp: cannot stat `': No such file or directory make: *** [debian/stamps/build-floppy-udeb] Error 1 debuild: fatal error at line 765: According to the dpkg-architecture manpage: BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY The DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU and DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS variables were only intro duced in relatively recent versions of dpkg-architecture (since dpkg 1.13.2), before this debian/rules files tended to check the values of the DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU or DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE variables which have been subject to change. busybox needs one of the following: either a Build-Dependency upon dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.2), or backwards compatibility code of the following nature: DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU 2>/dev/null) ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),) DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_CPU) ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),x86_64) DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU := amd64 endif endif DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_OS 2>/dev/null) ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),) DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS := $(subst -gnu,,$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM)) ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS),gnu) DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS := hurd endif endif -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]