Re: Helmut Grohne 2019-01-24 <[email protected]> > This is very unfortunate and we've had the exact same situation with > postgresql/pg_config. Then Christoph (Cced) came up with a crazy idea: > Run pg_config at build time, capture all of its output and generate a > shell script from it. Then he turned the packaged pg_config into a perl > script. How does that help? When running the host architecture > pg_config, it is run via /usr/bin/perl, which is a build architecture > executable. The "Exec format error" goes away. One gets the right > results.
Fwiw, the PostgreSQL hack is there: https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/blob/11/debian/pg_config.pl The __DATA__ section there is a stub, it get replaced by the real data at build time. https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/blob/11/debian/rules#L187-191 Christoph
