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

[Nilesh Patra]

Dear Andrius,

On 04/08/25 13:42, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> On 8/2/25 18:02, 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/
>>
>> The current command misses the --host option which it would need to
>> prefix the relevant triplets. Along with this, the install option in
>> configure tries to pass a `-s` with install to strip the binary.
>>
>> This would try to do it as the build arch and hence fails. Instead,
>> dh_strip from debhelper already takes care of it so this should not be
>> needed and we can just pass the strip-program to be "true".
>>
>> The patch at the end of the mail gets osra cross-building.
>> Please consider applying.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the patch. I will apply it once trixie is out.

Please make sure to apply the patch submitted in [1] or [2]

My initial patch was slightly wrong.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1110270#15
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cross/2025/08/msg00002.html