Hi Chris, On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 02:11:59PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > Indeed. My now-obvious mistake was that I was following: > > https://wiki.debian.org/CrossCompiling#Building_your_own_cross-toolchain
I've updated that section to say that you don't need that. Thank you. > .. instead of simply doing dpkg-buildpackage -a$arch. It is surely a > credit to you and the rest of the folks involved here that cross- > building has got that easy that I thought it could not /possibly/ > be that simple. I guess that was the core of our misunderstanding. Indeed, the goal is that cross building is a single command line flag. For lots of use cases, we actually reached that. > D'oh, of course; I often find these "false negatives" difficult to > parse. Ah, okay, it is an easy/obvious fix now. Patch incoming... Thank you. Looking forward to see this in unstable. Helmut
