> building a i386 on armhf cross-compiler (according to https://wiki.debian.org/MultiarchCrossToolchainBuild)
> builds, but then fails on dh_strip:
>
> dh_strip -plibgcc1 --dbg-package=libgcc1-dbg
> objcopy: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `debian/libgcc1/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1'
> dh_strip: objcopy --only-keep-debug debian/libgcc1/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 debian/libgcc1-dbg/usr/lib/debug//lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 returned exit code 1
>
>
> If i replace the objcopy command above with i486-linux-gnu-objcopy (which is installed, and was built
> from binutils source according to the same instructions), then then command runs successfully.
does using binutils-multiarch help?
The problem here is that debhelper isn't aware of the target architecture. I
can export the DEB_TARGET_* macros to the environment, if debhelper can use
these. I don't intend working on these.
And I hope such a cross compiler remains an academic exercise ...