dpkg needs working dpkg to build

[Andreas Florath <gnu4u@flonatel.org>]

Hello!

When compiling dpkg on a computer without a working and already
installed dpkg, the architecture is not set correctly.  The following is
done during the run of the configuration script:

bash-3.2$ ./dpkg-architecture.pl -ti686-pc-linux-gnu -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU
dpkg-architecture.pl: failure: dpkg --print-architecture failed: No such
file or directory

which results in an empty ARCHITECTURE in the new build dpkg.

Is this a (known) bug or a feature?  How to compile dpkg first time?


Kind regards

Andreas Florath