[pkg-apparmor] Bug#984582: apparmor FTCBFS: many different reasons

[Helmut Grohne]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 06:41:35PM +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Freitag, 5. März 2021, 13:07:45 CET schrieb Helmut Grohne:
> > 4. Then it uses AC_CHECK_FILE to locate a header. Bad idea.
> >    AC_CHECK_FILE is for host files, not for build files. Please use
> > test -e instead.

https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/merge_requests/728 was merged
quickly.

> > 6. The configure script assumes that $PYTHON-config is right.
> >    Unfortunately, the Python interpreter is not usually prefixed with
> > a triplet whereas the -config tool is. Thus we get the build
> > architecture python-config here, but we should use the host one.
> > AC_PATH_TOOL is required here.

https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/merge_requests/729 is just
reported.

> These two fixes (both in the added cross.patch) affect upstream code, 
> and I'd guess that they are not Debian-specific.

This is correct. These two changes really are meant to be upstreamed and
should help other cross build distributions.

Helmut