[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#922196: t-coffee FTCBFS: confuses C/C++ compilers

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Helmut,

thanks a lot for your QA work about cross-building.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 06:44:05AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Source: t-coffee
> Version: 12.00.7fb08c2-3
> Tags: patch
> User: helmutg at debian.org
> Usertags: rebootstrap
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> thank you for quickly removing the -i flag.

You are welcome.  I try to get things that can be quickly solved as fast
as possible from my desk - so it is natural to fix this quickly. ;-)


> Now diagnosing why t-coffee
> fails to cross build became a lot easier. As it happens, the upstream
> Makefile stores g++ in CC, but for cross compilation dh_auto_build
> overrides that with a C cross compiler. That doesn't work well. All we
> need to do here is store the C++ compiler in CC. Please consider
> applying the attached patch (possibly after buster).

I admit I do not see any reason to wait for after buster with this.  Do
you see any problem your patch might cause?
 
Kind regards

       Andreas.

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