Bug#968433: wmxres FTCBFS: builds for the build architecture

[Torrance, Douglas]

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https://groups.google.com/g/wmaker-dev/c/6YD-uqMJt_s/m/SWmRJhjzAgAJ
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On 8/15/20 4:55 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Source: wmxres
> Version: 1.3-1
> Tags: patch upstream
> User: debian-cross at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: ftcbfs
>
> wmxres fails to cross build from source. For one thing, the upstream
> Makefile hard codes the build architecture compiler (cc/gcc) in a few
> places despite having a standard CC variable. Using the variable fixes
> this part. Beyond that, it also passes -s to install, which happens to
> use the build architecture strip. Doing so also breaks generation of
> -dbgsym packages. For that reason, dh_auto_install nowadays passes an
> install that never strips in the INSTALL variable, so making install
> also substitutable fixes this part. Putting this together, one can cross
> build wmxres-dbgsym. Please consider applying the attached patch.

Thanks for the report!

The next release will use autotools instead of this ancient Makefile, 
which should solve these issues.