Bug#848894: Cannot reproduce on sbuild; thoughts on architecture=amd64

[Hilko Bengen]

control: tag -1 unreproducible

Good evening.

In my linux/amd64 sbuild setup, dx builds just fine.

What had me puzzled, though, is how the message "checking architecture
type... amd64" came to be. If uname works correctly, the string "amd64"
could not have been generated inside the DX_ARCHITECTURE function
(acinclude.m4). Could it be that ARCH=amd64 was part of the environment
that got passed to pbuilder ... and to the configure script?

Indeed, when I call the configure script with the ARCH environment
variable set, I can reproduce the effect:

,----
| $ ARCH=amd64 ./configure
| [...]
| checking whether large file support needs explicit enabling... yes
| checking architecture type... amd64
| checking architecture specific stuff... done
| checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
`----

Cheers,
-Hilko