Why is the dpkg-cross diversion of dpkg-buildpackage explicitly overriding the MAKEFLAGS environment variable?
DEBUG: setmakeflags=w -- NM=arm-linux-gnu-nm CC=arm-linux-gnu-gcc
GCC=arm-linux-gnu-gcc AR=arm-linux-gnu-ar RANLIB=arm-linux-gnu-ranlib
CONFIG_SITE=/etc/dpkg-cross/cross-config.arm AS=arm-linux-gnu-as
USRLIBDIR=/usr/arm-linux-gnu/lib LD=arm-linux-gnu-ld CXX=arm-linux-gnu-g
++ ARCH=arm CPP=arm-linux-gnu-cpp RC=windres IMAKECPP=arm-linux-gnu-cpp
$(MAKE) then receives those settings on the command line via $ENV
{'MAKEFLAGS'} and assigns those values a higher priority than whatever
is in the obj-foo/src/util/Makefile which means that CC is not set to
CC_FOR_BUILD, it is set to arm-linux-gnu-gcc, hence the failure in
libx11-6 where CC_FOR_BUILD should be set to 'gcc' so that a buildtime
target can be compiled and run. To reset this, I initially used the
'override' command to $(MAKE) but this is only supported by GNU Make.
However, using 'override' did solve the problem and that is how the
current libx11-6 package was built for Emdebian.
The current behaviour undermines this requirement:
# Prepend /usr/share/dpkg-cross/ to PATH to make use of the strip wrapper.
# Also append $crossbin, so that cross binaries can be found, but
# native stuff still has precedence (if a package wants to compile
# with 'gcc' a build tool that will be executed, for example).
(dpkg-cross.pl line 485)
The setting of MAKEFLAGS means that a package that needs to compile a
build tool with 'gcc' that will be executed, the tool actually gets
compiled with $archtriplet-gcc instead and then promptly dies.
This would also solve cross-build failures in a number of other
packages (like fontconfig) where build tools need to be compiled and
run within a cross-build.
I'm testing with simply not specifying any MAKEFLAGS or removing CC,
GCC, CXX, CPP and IMAKECPP from the %std_tools list in dpkg-cross.pl so
that MAKEFLAGS does not change CC behaviour, only AS, LD, AR, NM,
RANLIB and RC.
I'll also implement a --debug mode in the diverted dpkg-buildpackage
for future testing, outputting to a file in /tmp/.
As part of these changes, I'll also test #430507 "dpkg-cross: [Patch]
Check dpkg-architecture before falling back to internal tables" - note
the unfortunate coincidence in the bug number (!) and prepare a
dpkg-cross 1.99+2.0.0pre1 release that will go into Debian
experimental for testing.
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Neil Williams
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