[Debichem-devel] Bug#1110270: osra FTCBFS: Misses cross specific options with configure

[Nilesh Patra]

On 02/08/25 23:35, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Hi Nilesh,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 08:32:46PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
>> osra Fails to cross-build because it uses a home-grown configure command
>> instead of debhelper tooling. It seems this is because upstream
>> discourages the use of this as documented in https://sourceforge.net/p/osra/bugs/20/
> 
> Thanks for working on this.
> 
>> -       LIBS=-lpng ./configure --prefix=/usr --datarootdir=\$${prefix}/share/osra --enable-lib --libdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) --enable-openmp
>> +       LIBS=-lpng INSTALL_PROGRAM="install --strip-program=true" ./configure --prefix=/usr --datarootdir=\$${prefix}/share/osra --enable-lib --libdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) --host=$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) --enable-openmp
> 
> The value passed to --host should be $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE).
> 
> This is subtle. The value of *_MULTIARCH and *_GNU_TYPE only differs on
> i386 (and I cannot tell why we opted for doing so). The gist is that
> *_MULTIARCH should be used for filesystem paths (e.g. libraries) whereas
> *_GNU_TYPE should be used for prefixing tools (and --host as a
> consequence).

I realised it minutes after filing the report and replied back which went to the list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cross/2025/08/msg00002.html

Looks like I missed to CC the bug. Done just now. Thanks for replying.

I've filed afew more and it'd be great if you could review those too.