[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#734765: Bug#734765: src:zsh: FTBFS on arm64

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Wookey,

Wookey wrote:
> The classic 'config.sub,guess out of date' symptom:
> dh_auto_configure -B obj -- [...]
[...]
> Invalid configuration `aarch64-linux-gnu': machine `aarch64' not recognized
> configure: error: /bin/bash ../config.sub aarch64-linux-gnu failed
> 
> 
> Now this is odd because the package runs dh_autoreconf.

Indeed.

> However it clearly isn't working, and the top-level config.sub remains
> too old for newer arches. I don't understand why this is because the
> package appears to use automake as well as autoconf so these files
> should get updated. (see https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf for explanation).
> 
> I'm afraid I have not got to the bottom of this, but the simple
> expedient of running dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig as well as
> autoreconf fixes the problem and it builds. A patch for this is attached.

Thanks for the analysis and the patch! Much appreciated!

> This is perhaps not perfect, but is a small and simple fix which
> does no harm.

*nod* Not sure about the "harm" part, though, but we won't find out if
we don't try. :-)

I'd also try to run dh_autoreconf in verbose mode to maybe get an idea
what it's doing and what not.

> I will upload a package with this fix to delayed/7 soon in order to
> get it built in the new arches. Shout if that's not OK.

There are some things in the queue which we planned to upload soon
anyways (a regression caused by the new upstream release and
DEP8-support), so I could do an upload this weekend and get your patch
in, too.

So if you already uploaded to DELAYED/7, just leave it there. If not,
don't make the effort (and poke me if I haven't done any zsh upload by
Monday. ;-)

		Regards, Axel
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