Bug#903096: Cross-building for powerpc, powerpcspe, ppc64 fails
Package: src:linux
Version: 4.17.3-1
Severity: normal
Several powerpc platforms require 'wrapper' tools to post-process the
kernel image for use with the platform's boot loader. For historical
reasons the source for these is included in the kernel tree and we
include the tools in linux-image packages.
The upstream build system always builds the tools as native code,
since they can optionally be used at build time. As a result, a
cross-build puts wrong-architecture executables into the linux-image
packages. dh_strip treats this as a fatal error (quite reasonably)
and the build fails.
We should build the tools again using the proper compiler. We could
also move them into a separate package - this would reduce code
duplication between different kernel flavours, and would allow
cross-building kernel packages without libc-dev for the target
architecture.
Ben.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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