Hi Rogier, 2017-09-30 13:37 GMT+02:00 Rogier Wolff <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 10:32:04AM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> 2017-09-30 3:39 GMT+02:00 Robert Woodcock <[email protected]>: >> > On 09/28/2017 06:41 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> > >> > Samuel and I are working on releasing 0.92 - I'll make sure that this is >> > in there. Thanks for the reminder. >> >> That's great, thanks! > > Is there anything I can do upstream to make things easier for you?
As discussed in a previous message [1], the patch provided by Helmut does not touch the upstream part, so it's not /necessary/ to modify anything upstream. However, I am not sure if changes to upstream would be welcome to improve the situation for Debian other Linux distros or users -- I don't think so (read on), but maybe others have a different opinion. I think that the only problem is that "--host" is not passed to ./configure, so it doesn't know that it has to configure a cross-build for a given architecture. Passing such a parameter "by hand" on debian/rules (makefile to create a .deb package) would fix the issue; however, dh_auto_configure (a tool in Debian which is a wrapper around several build systems, to help to configure packages) takes care of that, and helps to improve debian/rules even further. So I don't think that there's anything needed in upstream, the only further step would be some kind of auto-detection that a cross-build is in place, but I don't think that it's expected that it does that or even possible to know, so attempting to change it will not have any big benefit, I think. But thanks for the proactivity and paying attention to the Debian BTS to improve your software :) [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839879#15 Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
