Hi Henning! On Sun, 29 May 2022 at 04:36, <henning.schu...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > Package: qtdeclarative-opensource-src > Version: 5.15.2+dfsg-6 > > Dear Maintainers, > > I am trying to build Qt5 on a current debian for a foreign architecture using > multi-arch. But when fetching the necessary build dependencies I run into the > following error: > root@61e383731765:~# dpkg --print-architecture > arm64 > root@61e383731765:~# dpkg --print-foreign-architectures > amd64 > root@61e383731765:~# apt-get build-dep -a amd64 qtdeclarative-opensource-src > Reading package lists... Done > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > builddeps:qtdeclarative-opensource-src:amd64 : Depends: > qtbase5-doc-html:amd64 (>= 5.15.2+dfsg~) but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > It looks like the dependency is linked to qtbase5-doc-html:amd64 which is not > available as it is architecture independent. > > I tried some other packages and qtsvg-opensource-src, > qtmultimedia-opensource-src, and qt3d-opensource-src seem to have similar > issues. While qtbase-opensource-src works as I would expect it. > > I tried to fix it myself in the debian/control files. It seems that > qtbase5-doc-html is a build-depends-indep and only removing the line > completely and installing the dependency manually really seemed to resolve > the error for me. > > I also tried the other way around using a amd64 machine and install build-dep > for arm64 but that resulted in the same erros. > > Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
Well, strictly speaking you don't need to build architecture independent binaries while cross building, so I really don't know. But I think this question is more suitable on #multiarch -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer https://perezmeyer.com.ar/
