[debian-mysql] Bug#920365: Bug#920365: mariadb_config: improve cross compilation support

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

> > I am happy to do these changes for you in the Debian package, but I
> > wasn't quite able to follow what script do you mean is the
> > replacement?
>
> The bug submission has a shell script attached.
>
> $ ./mysql_config_generator.sh debian/libmariadb-dev/usr/bin/mariadb_config > debian/mariadb_config.new
> $ chmod +x debian/mariadb_config.new
> $ mv debian/mariadb_config.new debian/libmariadb-dev/usr/bin/mariadb_config

OK, now I get it. I could have the script in debian/additions etc and
run the above step in the rules file.

> Of course, doing so breaks cross building mariadb itself. However that's
> known to be broken due to #707750, which hasn't shown any progress in 6
> years and likely won't show any progress in the next 6 years.

OK, but for MariaDB the
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707750 does not
apply anymore thanks to
https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.4/-/commit/b50ee2eb0bdca49583cf447ded46f799198cd4bf