On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > licenseutils fails to cross build from source, because the configure > script detects the build architecture pkg-config. Please use the > standard macro PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG (which is already implicitly used via > PKG_CHECK_MODULES) as it will find the correct pkg-config. I'm attaching > a patch for this.
I've applied the patch and also forwarded upstream.
Though upstream seems to have lost interest so I don't expect much at
this point.
> Beyond this, licenseutils uses help2man and - since it knows that doing
> so breaks cross compilation - it skips generating manual pages.
> Unfortunately, installing the absent pages fails. There are many
> solutions to this problem all with their own disadvantages:
> * Stop using help2man and write real manual pages.
> * The package can be built twice (once for build and once for host),
> but the dependencies of licenseutils seem to complex to allow this.
> * Split manual pages to an Architecture: all package (though this
> violates a policy should).
> * Generate manual pages on the upstream side and skip regenerating them
> during build.
I prefer the last option here, but I don't plan on implementing it at
this time; I'm writing this here as future doc (if anybody will ever
discover this bug).
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