Re: armel package building

[Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:32:53PM -0400, Joe Foster wrote:
>    We have see errors during dpkg-buildpackage when m4 is invoked:

What your build commands / enviroinment ?

apt-get source xaos
cd xaos-*/
apt-get build-dep xaos
export CFLAGS="-mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=softfp -O2 -g"
dpkg-buildpackage -B

and xaos configured and build fine.




>    ...
>    rmdir src/lib || true
>     debian/rules build
>    dh_testdir
>    ln -sf /usr/share/misc/config.sub
>    ln -sf /usr/share/misc/config.guess
>    autoconf
>    /usr/bin/m4:[1]configure.in:966: Warning: excess arguments to builtin
>    `m4_define' ignored
>    autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>    make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
>    dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>    Failed to dpkg-buildpackage while processing package xaos
> 
>    The autom4te/m4 tool fails on other builds as well (xpdf as an example).
> 
>    Is there a fix or does anyone have suggestions?
> 
>    Thanks
>    Joe
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. http://configure.in:966/

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