Thank you for the diff. It looks fine to me and something we can apply for the next upload. Would you please also submit a PR to upstream for the upstream applicable parts (0003-cross.patch).
> -----Original Message----- > From: Helmut Grohne [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 10:53 AM > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> > Subject: Bug#883489: fwupdate FTCBFS: multiple reasons > > Source: fwupdate > Version: 9-3 > Tags: patch > User: [email protected] > Usertags: rebootstrap > > fwupdate fails to cross build from source for a number of reasons: > 1. It uses the build architecture objcopy, because dh_auto_build passes > neither OBJCOPY nor CROSS_COMPILE. While the CROSS_COMPILE variable > is somewhat general, it's not as widely adopted. dh_auto_build > explicitly sets tools such as CC or PKG_CONFIG. Explicitly passing > CROSS_COMPILE makes this part work. > 2. The upstream build system hard codes the use of the build > architecture pkg-config. While it considers CROSS_COMPILE for other > tools (including CC, LD and OBJCOPY) it fails to do so for > pkg-config. I think this is an upstream bug and it should allow > substituting pkg-config just like the other tools. > 3. It derives FWUP in efi/Makefile from ARCH and ARCH from CC. > Unfortunately, dh_auto_install doesn't pass CC (only dh_auto_build > does). Thus FWUP differs between build and install and thus tries to > build more stuff. An easy way to solve this is to simply pass > CROSS_COMPILE to make install as well. > After fixing all of the above, fwupdate cross builds successfully. > Please consider applying the attached patch. > > Helmut
