[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1003477: Bug#1003477: talloc FTCBFS: it's difficult

[Mathieu Parent]

Le lun. 10 janv. 2022 à 21:27, Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de> a écrit :
>
> Source: talloc
> Version: 2.3.3-2
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-cross at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: cross-satisfiability ftcbfs
>
> talloc fails to cross build from source. I'm inclined to say it's
> because waf. Really, stop using waf if you can. It's a nightmare.
>
> Ok ok. It's bad, but not impossible. I've attached this huge patch to
> make it work. Of course you can apply it and it'll work, yes. But how
> about stop using waf?
>
> Polemics aside. waf can be made to cross build if you export all the
> build tools. Beyond the usual ones, you also need PYTHON3_CONFIG and
> this magic _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME variable. Of course, debian/rules
> also needs to use it instead of calling python3-config directly. Beyond
> that, a waf anser file is needed. And that's mostly it. Build-Depends
> need to be multiarchified and the python3-talloc.lintian-overrides was
> wrongly hard coding the amd64 triplet.
>
> It really can be made to work. But is all this pain really worth it? How
> about using like setuptools or something sane? Think about it. And if
> all else fails, apply my patch.

I would review any "setuptools or something sane" patch, but I won't
have the time to write it myself.

Alternatively, a patch to waf would help too...

Regards

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Mathieu Parent