Source: licenseutils
Version: 0.0.9-4
Tags: patch upstream
User: debian-cr...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: ftcbfs
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.
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.
Do you have any preference here?
Please close this bug when fixing the pkg-config issue.
Helmut
--- licenseutils-0.0.9.orig/configure.ac
+++ licenseutils-0.0.9/configure.ac
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
libcurl_min_version=7.10.0
libcurl_min_vernum=070A00
-AC_CHECK_PROGS(PKG_CONFIG, pkg-config)
+PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
if test "X$PKG_CONFIG" = X; then
AC_MSG_ERROR(Please install pkg-config from http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/)
fi
