Hi! On Sat, 2024-06-29 at 17:29:49 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > There's another regression that I found on various BSDs, where they > already have GNU make 4.4.1, where the buildtools test fails for the > AR and AR_FOR_BUILD checks, and I've not managed to track down yet > what the problem is (and whether this is an intentional behavior > change from its NEWS entry), but this needs to be fixed before a release > because Debian will eventually hit that, and other systems with a new > GNU make will also fail. If you could have a look that would be > appreciated, otherwise I'll try during the weekend.
I've tracked this down. The problem was that on the BSDs the dpkg build system sets CC as the value detected at configure time, which is cc, and for which there was no mocked binary, so the test code ended up running as if it was cross-building, which cause the value to not inherit from AR. I'll be adding a mock for cc, but that will not catch CC being set to clang or another program, so this needs to be dynamic, and so for now I'll explicitly override AR_FOR_BUILD to avoid the cross-compilation check. (I'm also going to add some CI runs for the BSDs to avoid regressions, but probably on a branch for github.) Thanks, Guillem
