Bug#773065: selecting target via dpkg-buildpackage --target-arch

[Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:37:12PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> please verify your patch using an old dpkg from wheezy, using native builds and
> the supported cross builds and attach the four compressed build logs.

I have some problems making sense of this, please clarify:

You are asking me to use an old dpkg. But dpkg-architecture (which is
what sets DEB_TARGET_ARCH) is in dpkg-dev. So I am assuming that you did
mean dpkg-dev here. Do you confirm?

When downgrading dpkg-dev to wheezy, any build finishes rather quickly:

| dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.11)

Builds with wheezy dpkg-dev simply are not supported by the packaging.
Likely, this is not what you wanted to know.

You are mentioning four logs, but I have problems understanding which
configurations you are asking for. From your two lines, I'd suppose you
are asking for:

 * host=build=target=amd64 (for example) in a sid chroot with dpkg-dev
   downgraded to wheezy. (Fails as above.)
 * host=build=amd64 target=x32 with the supported cross build method in
   a sid chroot with dpkg-dev downgraded to wheezy and selecting the
   target via debian/target. (Build-Depends not installable, because
   #771497.)

So this is two builds, but you asked for four. Which ones am I missing?

Please clarify and re-add the moreinfo tag.

Thanks in advance

Helmut