Source: stardict Version: 3.0.1-9.2 Tags: patch I think you need to apply something like the attached patch. However, you should probably read https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf yourself.
With the patch it built on arm64 for me. It wasn't in a fresh chroot, but you already build-depend on autotools-dev.
diff -ru stardict-3.0.1.orig/debian/rules stardict-3.0.1/debian/rules --- stardict-3.0.1.orig/debian/rules 2011-10-13 17:57:27.000000000 +0000 +++ stardict-3.0.1/debian/rules 2015-05-29 19:13:39.310000000 +0000 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ #export DH_VERBOSE=1 %: - dh $@ + dh $@ --with autotools-dev override_dh_auto_configure: ./autogen.sh