Hi Helmut, and thanks for your work on cross-building! Le samedi, 25 janvier 2020, 07.00:12 h CET Helmut Grohne a écrit : > foo2zjs fails to cross build from source, because it fails running > foomatic-perl-data and foomatic-combo-xml with an "Exec format error". > Usually that means that it needs the corresponding package > (foomatic-db-engine) for the build architecture rather than the host > architecture. The simplest way to do that is marking foomatic-db-engine > Multi-Arch: foreign. Unfortunately, sometimes such a marking is wrong > and that can cause breakage elsewhere, so one should be careful not to > blindly add it. To understand whether it is correct, one needs someone > with deep multiarch and foomatic knowledge to look at it. Unfortunately, > I think there are about zero persons on this planet that match the > criterion. For instance, I certainly lack the foomatic knowledge. So > let's try the second best approach: Have someone with multiarch > knowledge talk to someone with foomatic knowledge. Can I ask you to be > the one who talks about foomatic?
I'd be happy to help, but the best interlocutor you should talk to is Till Kamppeter (CC'ed), OpenPrinting upstream and Ubuntu packager. I'll take a closer look next week during FOSDEM. Cheers, OdyX
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