severity 291715 important
thanks

Hi LaMont,

Since this bug only occurs on 64-bit architectures where the package has
not been built, it doesn't appear to fit the criteria for serious bugs.

You're right that this is a bug in debian/rules: configure is being called
with a --with-64bit argument, but the necessary CC_CC64 variable is only
defined for sparc.

Julien, this configure option shouldn't be used at all; *all* compiler
output is 64-bit on these architectures, you should not be building the
library twice as happens when using --with-64bit.  OTOH, I do also see that
there's mention in the changelog of xt-aterm being unusable on 64-bit
architectures: perhaps you want to use the -DAT_64BIT compile flag that's
mentioned in configure.in.  Since past versions of xt-aterm were broken on
alpha and ia64, it may be a good idea to confirm that this fixes the problem
of misbuilt binaries before changing the package to cause binaries to be
output again on these architectures.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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