[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#980334: libvirt FTCBFS: uses the build architecture compiler via dtrace

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 01:37:30AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Your patch looks reasonable and appears to work, but I'd rather have
> it go through upstream, with the additional eyeballs that entails,
> and then cherry-pick it into Debian instead of the other way around.
> 
> Are you okay with me submitting the patch upstream on your behalf? I
> will of course make sure that authorship information are preserved
> and that you get sole credit for your contribution.

Perfect. There is no particular urgency on my side and I'd rather see
fixes that also benefit Yocto/PtxDist/Buildroot than have this applied
to Debian only. Indeed, I'm working on making libvirt cross buildable
for quite a while already:
 * #864671: libvirt B-D: libparted0-dev
 * #918503: split glusterfs-common
 * #919708: glusterfs-dev misses Depends: libacl1-dev
 * #919705: multiarch libapparmor
 * #929455: Multi-Arch: foreign dmidecode
 * #941099: Multi-Arch: foreign open-iscsi
 * #980335: multiarch libsanlock

As you can see, this is quite an endeavour. Not that much is left
though.

> The patch, as I intend to submit it upstream, is attached. Please let
> me know if I can go ahead, and thank you for not only reporting this
> issue but going the extra mile and providing a patch that fixes it :)

Eighth patch in making libvirt cross build! Be prepared for number 9.

Thanks for maintaining libvirt in Debian and going the extra mile of
properly upstreaming patches.

Helmut