armel and armhf build failures in GNU R related packages

[peter green]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I could pass it on. The main configure / m4 developer is quite knowledgeable
> and responsive but without a reference system ... this gets quite tedious
> quite quickly.
Debian has porterboxes available for both armel and armhf (abel and 
agricola for
armel, harris for armhf). If you need build-depends installing i'm sure 
that can be
arranged.

There is also qemu though it's a bit slow,
http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/