Source: pftools Version: 3+dfsg-1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source
It looks like pftools explicitly supports only amd64 CPUs. Assuming that supporting a wider range of architectures is out of the question, please formally declare Architecture: any-amd64 so that other architectures' autobuilders don't bother trying to touch it. Meanwhile, please encourage upstream to fail non-amd64 builds with a more appropriate error message -- they currently fail with configure: error: Currently pftools only runs on 64 bit architectures. on all non-amd64 architectures, even 64-bit ones like arm64. The proper way to check for 64-bit architectures would be to determine the size of void *. However, I see no point in correcting the test rather than the message as long as configure proceeds to insist on support for x86 SIMD extensions. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information
