[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#859730: pftools: FTBFS on non-amd64

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: pftools
Version: 3+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

It looks like pftools explicitly supports only amd64 CPUs.  Assuming
that supporting a wider range of architectures is out of the question,
please formally declare

Architecture: any-amd64

so that other architectures' autobuilders don't bother trying to touch
it.

Meanwhile, please encourage upstream to fail non-amd64 builds with a
more appropriate error message -- they currently fail with

  configure: error: Currently pftools only runs on 64 bit architectures.

on all non-amd64 architectures, even 64-bit ones like arm64.  The
proper way to check for 64-bit architectures would be to determine the
size of void *.  However, I see no point in correcting the test rather
than the message as long as configure proceeds to insist on support
for x86 SIMD extensions.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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