What happens when an architecture independent package won't build on all architectures?

[Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com>]

The fact that a package is  architecture independent is no guarantee that the 
package will build under all architectures. The package can "build depend" on 
packages that don't exist for some architectures.

But if the package once built under any particular architecture, should then 
run under all architectures.

 My question is what happens in this case? Will the build system take the 
build results from one of the "good" architectures, ( that is architectures 
where the package does build successfully,) and give the results of that build 
to the bad architectures?

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