[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#872639: cdparanoia FTCBFS: confuses ./configure with a CC that doesn't match host

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2017-08-19 18:15 Helmut Grohne:
>Source: cdparanoia
>Version: 3.10.2+debian-11
>Tags: patch
>User: helmutg at debian.org
>Usertags: rebootstrap
>
>cdparanoia fails to cross build from source, because ./configure is
>confused about the (implicit) --host not matching CC. It believes we are
>building for the build architecture with a cross compiler and thus fails
>finding anything reasonabl. It finally gives up after failing to
>discover a 16bit integer type.
>
>cdparanoia is sufficiently recent that it should no longer be passed
>CC=, but rather --host. After doing that, it cross builds. Please
>consider applying the attached patch.

This package has important rev-depends like gstreamer plugins, it would
be nice to be able to cross-build it, and it's a quite simple patch.

What do you maintainers think about it?

If you happen to be busy, would it help if we offer to NMU?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>