Package: src:memleax Version: 1.1.1-1 Severity: important User: [email protected] Usertags: architecture-detection
Hi! I've been doing a full rebuild of the Debian archive, building all source packages targeting armel and armhf using arm64 hardware. We are planning in future to move all of our 32-bit armel/armhf builds to using arm64 machines, so this rebuild is to identify packages that might have problems with this configuration. I've tried to build memleax for armel on top of arm64, and it's failing to configure: make[1]: Entering directory '/build/memleax-1.1.1' ./configure --prefix=/usr checking machine type... checking OS type... checking libraries... checking libunwind... libunwind is missing. Error: libunwind-devel is required. I've checked, and the build-deps are being installed correctly. However, looking at the hand-rolled configure script (ugh!) in the source package it's clearly not going to work reliably. It's assuming that 32-bit Arm machines will only ever mention "armv7"* from uname, for exampke. That will already break on perfectly valid ARMv5 armel machines. And there's no way of over-riding the architecture it detects from the command line. This over-simple configure script will also fail on multiple points of Debian policy (e.g. debug builds, nocheck, nostrip, noopt, etc.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
