Control: reopen -1 On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 03:09:03PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > * New upstream release (Closes: #880771).
This is only a partial fix. > The first hard failure is found in dwarfdump's configure.in. It uses > AC_TRY_RUN to check whether __attribute__ ((unused)) works. Such checks > always fail for cross compilation, but running the example is completely > unnecessary. The check can easily be turned into AC_TRY_COMPILE. This part is fixed. > Then libdwarf runs host tools during build. Its Makefile.in shows that > cross compilation was considered as it clearly marks the relevant places > with uses of $(HOSTCC) rather than $(CC). Unfortunately, HOSTCC receives > the same value as CC. The autoconf-archive has a macro AX_CC_FOR_BUILD > for discovering the build architecture compiler and after using that, > libdwarf actually builds. This part is not. Helmut
