diff -Nru xalan-1.12/debian/changelog xalan-1.12/debian/changelog
--- xalan-1.12/debian/changelog	2021-01-05 15:11:43.000000000 +0000
+++ xalan-1.12/debian/changelog	2021-01-06 13:30:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+xalan (1.12-6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Switch to using build dir to avoid arch naming issues. Closes: 979327
+
+ -- William Blough <bblough@debian.org>  Wed, 06 Jan 2021 08:30:26 -0500
+
 xalan (1.12-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Use DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE instead of DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH to fix i386/i686
diff -Nru xalan-1.12/debian/rules xalan-1.12/debian/rules
--- xalan-1.12/debian/rules	2021-01-05 15:11:43.000000000 +0000
+++ xalan-1.12/debian/rules	2021-01-06 13:30:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@
 export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND=-DNDEBUG
 export DEB_CXXFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND=-DNDEBUG
 
+export BUILD_DIR=build
 
 %:
-	dh $@
+	dh $@ --builddirectory=${BUILD_DIR}
 
 override_dh_auto_build-indep:
-	( cd obj-${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE} && $(MAKE) doc-api)
+	( cd ${BUILD_DIR} && $(MAKE) doc-api)
 
 
 # Don't run tests for arch-indep (doc) build