Bug#1018046: libsocket6-perl FTCBFS: does not pass --host to configure

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: libsocket6-perl
Version: 0.29-2
Tags: patch
User: debian-cr...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: ftcbfs

libsocket6-perl is built using a Makefile.PL that calls a ./configure
script. Unfortunately, that latter invocation happens to lack --host and
thus fails. Adding the --host flag is relatively easy, just figuring out
the right value is not entirely obvious. I opted for $Config{archname},
which happens to be x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi on amd64. This is not
quite what we wanted x86_64-linux-gnu, but reasonably close. It also
seems to work on armhf. Do you know a better way to acquire the
architecture name? If not, is this patch acceptable?

Helmut

--- libsocket6-perl-0.29.orig/Makefile.PL
+++ libsocket6-perl-0.29/Makefile.PL
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
         $cmd .= " $Config{sh}";
     }
     $cmd .= " ./configure";
+    $cmd .= " --host=$Config{archname}";
     $cmd .= " --with-perl=$path_perl" if ($path_perl);
     system($cmd);
 }