[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#905611: xmedcon FTCBFS: abuses AC_CHECK_FILE

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: xmedcon
Version: 0.15.0+dfsg-2
Tags: patch upstream
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap

xmedcon fails to cross build from source, because it abuses
AC_CHECK_FILE. The macro is meant for checking files on the host system,
not for checking files (such as includes) on the build system. For the
latter a simple test -f is ok. The attached patch fixes that part, but
it doesn't make xmedcon cross buildable: It later fails running
libs/dicom/parse, which is built with the host architecture compiler. As
a build tool it needs to be built with the build architecture compiler.
Fixing that likely involves using AX_CC_FOR_BUILD and possibly rewriting
parse.c to avoid relying on dicom.h. Please consider fixing the
AC_CHECK_FILE anyway and close this bug when doing so. It will allow
others to see the real failure.

Helmut
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