Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.11 Severity: important dh_auto_configure currently doesn't check whether the configure script it calls comes from autoconf 2.13 or a newer version, and calls it, when not cross compiling, with --build=... only.
The problem is that calling autoconf 2.13 generated configure scripts this way breaks the build in several ways. For example, this is what happens on some buildds: checking host system type... alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu checking build system type... alpha-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu checking build system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu which ends up being a cross-compiling condition... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.20-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.1-9 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.1-9 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
