Hi Nilesh, On 2021-06-02 19:29, Nilesh Patra wrote: > Nauty fails to cross build due to two reasons: > > 1. It uses AC_RUN_IFELSE testing which cannot heppen during cross build > Simply replacing it by AC_LINK_IFELSE does the trick. Please find the > patch for this below, and consider applying
I have no experience with this, alas. > 2. It uses help2man during build, and the same has also been > autotoolised - this isn't allowed during build. It looks like there's > particularly > no good way to fix it, and probably compiling twice once for build > arch, and once for host is un-needed extra work. > I'd suggest removing the help2man invocations from autotools, not > generate this during build, but simply maintain maintainer manpage, > using for example createmanpages script[1] > Talking to upstream and asking them to vendor their own manpages from > next release can also be a nice option. > > If it is too much hassle for you, I'm willing to do so myself and > even maintain the package > > [1]: > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/helper-scripts/-/blob/master/createmanpages Indeed, help2man should not call the compiled executables. Nevertheless it may still be used to produce manpages from static text, see [2] for example. createmanpages is a viable option too. [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libemf2svg/-/blob/df56bd1149cf512b6a232052437d04310bd90982/debian/rules#L11 Best, Andrius
