On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:22:44PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-01-23 09:58 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bill,
> > could you try to build above version from experimental. I don't have a
> > 64bit machine running a 64bit kernel with i386 around here.
> 
> You need to CC the bug submitter if you want him to answer.  But I can
> help out: this bug still exists in 3.0.1-1, the build fails at the same
> stage with the same messages.
> 
> The following patch fixes this for me (tested in 3.0.1-1 only):
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> --- debian/rules~     2010-01-23 12:20:22.000000000 +0100
> +++ debian/rules      2010-01-23 12:45:24.116336762 +0100
> @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@
>       --enable-canvas \
>       --enable-crypto \
>       --with-distribution-id=$(DEBIAN_DIST) \
> +     --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
> +     --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \
>       $(EXTRA_BRANDING_CONFIGURE_FLAGS) \
>       $(NULL)
>  
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I agree with Sven. The relevant part of Debian policy is 
11.1. Architecture specification strings

This means that in practice, config.guess should never be used, because it
will detect the architecture of the build machine and not the target Debian
architecture. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 



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