Package: automake-1.15
Version: 1:1.15.1-3
Tags: patch upstream
User: helm...@debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap
I tried using valac during cross compilation and figured that one
presently gets an "Exec format error", because it is implicitly marked
Multi-Arch: no. So I considered whether it can be marked Multi-Arch:
foreign and I conclude "no", because valac uses gcc and pkg-config and
exposes their architecture-dependent behaviour. Thus we must consider
valac to be a "tool". That means considering $ac_tool_prefix.
AM_PROG_VALAC currently uses AC_PATH_PROG, so it does not consider
$ac_tool_prefix. I think this is a bug and it really should be using
AC_PATH_TOOL here. Please consider applying the attached patch.
Helmut
Index: automake-1.15-1.15.1/m4/vala.m4
===================================================================
--- automake-1.15-1.15.1.orig/m4/vala.m4
+++ automake-1.15-1.15.1/m4/vala.m4
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
# AM_PROG_VALAC([MINIMUM-VERSION], [ACTION-IF-FOUND], [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND])
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
AC_DEFUN([AM_PROG_VALAC],
- [AC_PATH_PROG([VALAC], [valac], [valac])
+ [AC_PATH_TOOL([VALAC], [valac], [valac])
AS_IF([test "$VALAC" != valac && test -n "$1"],
[AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $VALAC is at least version $1])
am__vala_version=`$VALAC --version | sed 's/Vala *//'`
