On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 23:47 +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
> Thank you for the bug report, James.
> 
> The binary file fail-mbr.bin can be built only with a (real or emulated) 
> x-86 machine; however it makes sense to install it in a non-x-86 server,
> since partclone can use it while restoring an x-86 client.
> 
> So, what may I do? 

I would just go with a, but I think your choices are:

a) Ship fail-mbr.bin as part of the package source and don't build it
   - You already seem to be shipping it with the source
   - This should be OK as long as you also distribute the .S and
     Makefile.am, and if fail-mbr.bin can be proven to be built from the
     same source.

b) Split the fail-mbr into a separate arch:all package and only build it
   when binary-indep is called. You can then say in README.source that
   this extra package can only be built on x86. The buildds won't try
   and build it.

c) Build a cross toolchain as part of your build process. You might be
   able to get away with just binutils here. You can build-depend on
   binutils-source to get the source.

> The closest issue which I could imagine among debian packages is the
> build system of the package firmware-free; however I could not
> understand, while inspecting loosely this package, whether there were
> real source files in the package and whether there is any chance to
> buils any binary from source. When I try to debuild this package with an
> amd64 machine, nothing is built, binaries are just copied.

firmware-free doesn't actually build anything, it just ships all the
binaries.

James

> James Cowgill a écrit :
> > Source: partclone
> > Version: 0.2.78-1
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > partclone failed to build on all non-x86 arches with this error:
> > 
> > > Making all in fail-mbr
> > > make[3]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/fail-mbr'
> > > gcc -Wall -Werror -m32 -nostdlib -o fail-mbr.o fail-mbr.S
> > > gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-m32'
> > > make[3]: *** [fail-mbr.o] Error 1
> > > Makefile:481: recipe for target 'fail-mbr.o' failed
> > > make[3]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»/fail-mbr'
> > > make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > Makefile:387: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> > > make[2]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> > > make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> > > dh_auto_build: make -j1 returned exit code 2
> > 
> > Assembling fail-mbr.S with a non-x86 compiler clearly isn't going to work.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > James
> 
> 
> 

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