Bug#946235: atk1.0: please make autopkgtests cross-test-friendly

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 07:18:22PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Dec 2019 at 09:41:54 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > As far as I see, installing crossbuild-essential-i386 + pkg-config doesn't
> > set up an i386-linux-gnu-pkg-config symlink.

> It's i686-etc. (GNU tuple, not multiarch tuple). It's helpful that your
> first attempts at cross-testing are for i386, because I think that's our
> only architecture where the difference between GNU and multiarch tuple
> matters in practice!

> As far as I can see, it is meant to be set up when you either add
> i386 as a foreign architecture, or install pkg-config, whichever one
> of those two actions is done second. If that isn't working for you,
> then I think there's a problem, because cross-compiling packages that
> rely on pkg-config using dpkg won't work.

Ok, sure enough, it's there.  So ${CROSS_COMPILE}pkg-config should DTRT!

> > Do you think autopkgtests
> > should be setting up such a symlink locally
> 
> No, I think they should be relying on the OS getting it right, and
> failing if the OS got it wrong.
> 
>     smcv

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