> Main thing wookey encountered at Debconf was that packages don't pass > --host=arch-linux --build=arch-linux ... flags to the autotools inside > in the package.
I don't thing it's that big problem. Just an easy-to-fix bug that should be reported against affected packages. Btw, dh_make generates debian/rules with *correct* (i.e. cross-compile-friendly) call to ./configure. > > - some sort of framework that will scan debian packages and find vars > > that should be defined > > Well I actually wonder which vars you have in mind here. Could you > elaborate? While running, configure script (generated by autoconf) performs different tests. Many of those try to compile, or compile and link, or compile and link and evecure a tiny program. For obvious reasons, execution is not possible if cross-compiling. Autoconf has support for pre-setting the results of the tests (by pre-setting appropriate shell vars). Config.cache works this way; also it's possible to preset vars in a 'site config' script. Dpkg-cross uses this way to pre-set results of tests that require execution. To do so, it provides a set of cross-config.$(arch) files, and sets CONFIG_SITE environment variable to point to one of those files. However, current contents of these files is somewhat messy. I'd like to see some systematization there. Nikita
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