Bug#695442: whois: Please support cross-building with the attached patch

2012-12-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 08, Adam Conrad adcon...@debian.org wrote: * Respect DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE when selecting CC for cross-compiling. Has this been discussed anywhere? Why cannot cross-builders just set $CC, $LD, etc? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#695442: whois: Please support cross-building with the attached patch

2012-12-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 09, Adam Conrad adcon...@debian.org wrote: The simplest argument for this is because cross-builders (especially autobuilders) shouldn't be expected to know what every package needs or wants, the package knows that best. Generally, upstream sources I agree about the principle, but

Bug#695442: whois: Please support cross-building with the attached patch

2012-12-09 Thread Adam Conrad
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:42:51PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 09, Adam Conrad adcon...@debian.org wrote: The simplest argument for this is because cross-builders (especially autobuilders) shouldn't be expected to know what every package needs or wants, the package knows that best.

Bug#695442: whois: Please support cross-building with the attached patch

2012-12-09 Thread Adam Conrad
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:03:14PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 08, Adam Conrad adcon...@debian.org wrote: * Respect DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE when selecting CC for cross-compiling. Has this been discussed anywhere? Why cannot cross-builders just set $CC, $LD, etc? The simplest argument

Bug#695442: whois: Please support cross-building with the attached patch

2012-12-07 Thread Adam Conrad
Package: whois Version: 5.0.20 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: crossbu...@debian.org Usertags: origin-ubuntu raring ubuntu-patch cross In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following: * Respect DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE when selecting CC for cross-compiling. It should be rather