Bug#735253: libsdl1.2: Changes for ppc64el support

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2014/1/14 Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at canonical.com>:
> Package: libsdl1.2
> Version: 1.2.15-8
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu trusty ubuntu-patch
>
> Dear maintainers,
>
> In Ubuntu, we've applied the following patch to libsdl1.2 in order to make
> the package build on the ppc64el architecture.  The upstream autogen.sh
> script does not properly invoke libtoolize, so dh_autoreconf ./autogen.sh
> only partially updates the autogenerated files; and this matters, since the
> ppc64el port specifically needs an update of ltmain.sh (and other future
> ports might, as well).

Thanks for the report and the patch.

We've been having the same problem with most of the SDL packages for
new arches like arm64 and this one, at least the ones coming from core
SDL and not extra modules.

Do you think that there's a more fundamental way to fix this, like
asking upstream about modifying autogen.sh with more
sensible/useful/convenient commands; which would allow us to go
without this kind of patches and less lines in debian/rules?

At least since I am involved in the maintenance of SDL packages, about
a year or two, they are quite amenable to incorporating fixes from us,
specially because they are quite involved with deb packaging (they are
hired by the company doing Steam OS, and I think that libSDL is an
important aspect of Steam).


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