[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#1003313: Bug#1003313: libgpg-error FTCBFS for musl: refuses to use generic lock object detection

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: forwarded 1003313 https://dev.gnupg.org/T5762

On Sat 2022-01-08 01:15:16 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> A while ago, libgpg-error gained a feature that enabled configure to
> introspect lock objects without running code (via objdump).
> Unfortunately, this code is only used for glibc. When cross building for
> e.g. musl, it falls back to the old way where you'd have to collect the
> results. And since those aren't collected, it fails. The objdump trick
> should work on all Linux systems regardless of the C library in used.

Thanks for this suggestion.  It looks like upstream used to permit this
for all C libraries, and i don't understand why they changed it either.

I've forwarded the suggestion upstream (see the URL above).  If upstream
is ok with it, i'm happy to apply it in debian.

     --dkg
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