It is possible that I may have opened this bug against the wrong package. If so, please transfer this bug report to the appropriate package. Here's a console log from an attempted package build:
------------------------- debian2:~# alien -c gsk7bas64-7.0-3.13.s390x.rpm Package build failed. Here's the log: dh_testdir dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k -d dh_installdirs dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \ xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/gsk7bas64 dh_compress dh_makeshlibs dh_installdeb dh_shlibdeps dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: couldn't find library libgsk7cms_64.so needed by debian/gsk7bas64/usr/local/ibm/gsk7_64/lib64/libgsk7km_64.so (its RPATH is ''). Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file. To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: couldn't find library libgsk7sys_64.so needed by debian/gsk7bas64/usr/local/ibm/gsk7_64/lib64/libgsk7km_64.so (its RPATH is ''). Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file. To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libstdc++.so.5 needed by debian/gsk7bas64/usr/local/ibm/gsk7_64/lib64/libgsk7km_64.so (its RPATH is ''). Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file. To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512 make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored) dh_gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not appear in package's architecture list (s390x) dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 find: `gsk7bas64-7.0': No such file or directory debian2:~# -------------------------- Here are my notes: Many of the "could not find library" messages may be due to the fact that the postinst script establishes symbolic links after the fact which define these libraries. However, that does not explain dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 's390' does not appear in package's architecture list (s390x) I think alien needs to massage the build directories somewhere before it calls dpkg-gencontrol, whether directly or indirectly. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]