gcc-2.95 build issue -- forwarded message from Roderich Schupp

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Matthias Klose writes:
 > in the changelog you wrote
 > >  * Apparently we do have a problem with dpkg-dev-1.9, which does
 > >    create control files with missing 'Architecture:' lines. Fixes
 > >    are welcome.
 > 
 > The following patch fixes the problem for a native build,
 > but will probably break on cross compiles:
 > 
 > --- ORIG/debian/rules.defs      Sat May  5 19:05:46 2001
 > +++ ./debian/rules.defs Sat May  5 18:43:46 2001
 > @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@
 >  # architecture dependent variables
 >  #DEB_HOST_ARCH         :=3D $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)=
 > 
 >  DEB_HOST_ARCH          :=3D $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)=
 > 
 > -ifneq ($(TARGET),native)
 > -DEB_HOST_ARCH =3D $(TARGET)
 > -endif
 >  DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU       :=3D $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_C=
 > PU)
 >  DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM    :=3D $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_S=
 > YSTEM)
 >  DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE      :=3D $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_T=
 > YPE)

thanks for your analysis. Building now with

--- debian/rules.defs~  Fri May  4 19:48:47 2001
+++ debian/rules.defs   Sun May  6 14:28:13 2001
@@ -31,10 +31,11 @@
 endif
 
 # architecture dependent variables
-#DEB_HOST_ARCH         := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)
 DEB_HOST_ARCH          := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)
 ifneq ($(TARGET),native)
-DEB_HOST_ARCH = $(TARGET)
+  ifneq ($(TARGET),)
+    DEB_HOST_ARCH := $(TARGET)
+  endif
 endif
 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU       := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_CPU)
 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM    := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM)

and looking in dpkg's changelog reveils why it doesn't work with
dpkg-1.9 anymore:

  * scripts/dpkg-buildpackage.sh: 
    + don't bother to specify architecture settings on commandlines since
      we put them in the environment already