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armel-cross-toolchain-base package

build-depends snarfing should also "cross" the arch-specific build-depends

Bug #637454 reported by Steve Langasek
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armel-cross-toolchain-base (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

armel-cross-toolchain{,-base} build-dependencies are copied from those in binutils and gcc. That gives us build-deps such as this:

   g++-multilib [amd64 i386 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 sparc kfreebsd-amd64]

But g++-multilib is a build-dependency used when building *native* toolchains on these architectures. When building an armel cross-compiler, this is superfluous.

The debian/rules magic should parse these build-dependencies, stripping out all architecture qualifiers, and discarding any arch-specific build-dependencies that don't apply to the target architecture (armel). See Section 7.1 of debian-policy 3.9.0 or later for a full explanation of the architecture matching rules that apply.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in armel-cross-toolchain-base (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
importance: Wishlist → Low
assignee: nobody → Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)
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Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw) wrote :

started test build without g++-multilib dependency - will see

Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)
Changed in armel-cross-toolchain-base (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package armel-cross-toolchain-base - 1.53

---------------
armel-cross-toolchain-base (1.53) natty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Hope ]
  * fixed build for non-standard PF.

  [ Marcin Juszkiewicz ]
  * added binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi to build-conficts as we need binutils
    which know what sysroot is during build.
  * added fakeroot dependency
  * dropped g++-multilib dependency - closes LP: #637454
  * updated to natty versions
    - dropped binutils patch as it got merged in natty (bumped binutils
      dependency)
  * use gcc-4.4 to compile binutils and eglibc (update to gcc-4.5 is on
    todolist)
  * do not copy gcc patches anymore as this is symlink to debian/patches
 -- Marcin Juszkiewicz <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:28:34 +0100

Changed in armel-cross-toolchain-base (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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