Thanks for the quick fix, Andreas! Compilation now succeeds, but the installation rules fail:
find debian/tmp/usr/ncbi-vdb/linux/gcc/i686/dbg/lib -name "*-static.a" -delete find: 'debian/tmp/usr/ncbi-vdb/linux/gcc/i686/dbg/lib': No such file or directory It looks like upstream's build system uses i386 (DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU) here, despite using x86_64 (DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU) on amd64 and x32. AFAICT, there's no standard dpkg-architecture variable that precisely matches this pattern, but you should be able to take the first component of DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH: VDB_ARCH := $(word 1, $(subst -, ,$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH))) Alternatively, you could special-case i386 or use a wildcard. Thanks! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected]

