Much obliged, Helmut. I keep learning. Patch coming up. Warm regards, Danai
On 16 September 2017 at 17:05, Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: cjk > Version: 4.8.4+git20170127-1 > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: rebootstrap > > cjk fails to cross build from source, because it generally uses build > architecture tools. It fails to pass --host to ./configure and it fails > to use cross compilers with make. > > The debian packaging patches the Makefile to call ./configure there and > that makes cross building hard, because the parameter for --host is > unknown there. Thus my attached patch moves the relevant build > instructions into debian/rules and indirects them through > dh_auto_configure and dh_auto_build to let debhelper pass the cross > toolchains. After doing so, cjk cross builds. Please consider applying > the attached patch or a variant of it that ensures --host is passed to > ./configure and CC is passed to make. > > Helmut
