> Then go and read Henrique's excellent > /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz
I added the following to my rules file from his README and all is well. # FOR AUTOCONF 2.52 AND NEWER ONLY ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)) confflags += --build $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) else confflags += --build $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) endif I still dont understand what the problem was, config.[guess|sub] were upto date, the same gcc was being used, configure resolved build and host the same way, and it worked in testing. There must be a bug in there somewhere. (brain dump) All is well. Glenn