[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#884795: Bug#884795: Bug#884795: patman: FTBFS on x32: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section

[Graham Inggs]

On 20/12/2017 20:00, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> I haven't looked at motif's build system, but I see that patman's
> makefile doesn't honor CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS (which would be the normal
> means of injecting relevant flags here), just CPPFLAGS (which is
> supposed to be for the C PreProcessor).  It should properly consult both
> CPPFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, and distribute its own flags across these two
> variables as appropriate.

Thanks for that tip!  It seems upstream had CPPFLAGS and CXXFLAGS 
confused.  Correcting that [1] made blhc happy, and I was able to revert 
my previous workaround.

Andreas, ping me if you want that uploaded.

As far as I can tell, hardening flags are being passed correctly in 
motif though.


[1] 
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/patman.git/commit/?id=3e830b572446d24e7163cb183d30e2ce402976bb