Package: openbios-ppc
Version: 1.0+svn1047-1
Severity: serious
The package fails to build from source, on either squeeze or wheezy.
This is because of wrong code in config/scripts/switch-arch:
select_prefix()
{
for TARGET in ${1}-linux-gnu- ${1}-linux- ${1}-elf- ${1}-eabi-
do
if type ${TARGET}gcc > /dev/null 2>&1
then
return
fi
done
if [ "$ARCH" = "$HOSTARCH" ]; then
return
fi
echo "ERROR: no ${1} cross-compiler found !" 1>&2
exit 1
}
On a powerpc debian install of either squeeze or wheezy, there's
powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (which is just a symlink to gcc), but no
powerpc-linux-gnu-{as,ld,ranlib,strip}. Yet, based on the code
above, the script is setting TARGET variable to powerpc-linux-gnu-,
which gets written to obj-ppc/config.mak.
In squeeze backport of openbios-ppc package I worked around
this by setting TARGET= when calling make from debian/rules
to build stuff in obj-ppc:
cd obj-ppc && $(MAKE) all TARGET=
Proper fix, I think, is to swap for-loop and if statement in
the above function, select_prefix, to test for ARCH being
the same as HOSTARCH before other variants.
Now I wonder how this package has been built to be uploaded
to debian...
Thanks,
/mjt
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