Bug#870862: directfb FTCBFS: configure: error: Could not find a directfb-csource in your PATH

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: directfb
Version: 1.2.10.0-9
Tags: patch
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap

directfb fails to cross build from source:

| checking for directfb-csource... no
| configure: error: Could not find a directfb-csource in your PATH

It seems that for cross builds directfb expects to be able to run a
system-provided directfb-csource. That lives in libdirectfb-bin. So
directfb is missing a cross-specific dependency on libdirectfb-bin.
Since it wants to run directfb-csource, it needs to be installed for the
build architecture. That can be achieved by either marking the
libdirectfb-bin dependency with :native or by marking libdirectfb-bin
Multi-Arch: foreign. I think the latter is appropriate here, because
libdirectfb-bin contains only command line utilities. As far as I
understand their behaviour does not depend on the architecture of the
package. If that statement is wrong, it must not be marked M-A:foreign.
Please consider applying the attached patch after verifying that
M-A:foreign is indeed correct on libdirectfb-bin.

Helmut
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diff --minimal -Nru directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/changelog directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/changelog
--- directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/changelog	2017-01-30 20:56:58.000000000 +0100
+++ directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/changelog	2017-08-05 22:10:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+directfb (1.2.10.0-9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Fix FTCBFS: (Closes: #-1)
+    + Add missing cross build dependency on libdirectfb-bin.
+    + Mark libdirectfb-bin Multi-Arch: foreign.
+
+ -- Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de>  Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:10:01 +0200
+
 directfb (1.2.10.0-9) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * debian/libdirectfb-1.2-9.install: Fix architecture-based filter to
diff --minimal -Nru directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/control directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/control
--- directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/control	2017-01-30 20:53:05.000000000 +0100
+++ directfb-1.2.10.0/debian/control	2017-08-05 22:10:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 Build-Depends:
  debhelper (>= 10),
  dh-exec,
+ libdirectfb-bin <cross>,
  libfreetype6-dev,
  libgl1-mesa-dev,
  libjpeg-dev,
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@
 
 Package: libdirectfb-bin
 Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends:
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends}