Bug#373193: About #373193

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> My understanding is that gccross is a good short-term solution, and in
> the long-term all packages should be cross-build aware and use the right
> tools themselves. In fact, my package is configured with
> --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), so make
> should already call the right compiler with the right paths.

What should a package do if it doesn't use autoconf? And how will your
package find the correct include paths and libraries if gccross doesn't
rewrite them?

Marcus