Bug#985924: pmacct FTCBFS: fails finding mysql

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 07:54:14AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Source: pmacct
> Version: 1.7.6-2
> Tags: patch upstream
> User: debian-cross@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: ftcbfs
> 
> pmacct fails to cross build from source, because it uses mysql_config
> and mysql_config fundamentally cannot be made to work during cross
> builds. A better solution is pkg-config and that actually works. Please
> consider applying the attached patch to try pkg-config before
> mysql_config. Doing so makes pmacct cross buildable.
> 
> Helmut

> --- pmacct-1.7.6.orig/configure.ac
> +++ pmacct-1.7.6/configure.ac

Hello. I considered this patch for the QA upload I did today, but
unfortunately it did not apply cleanly, so it will have to be
next time.

Thanks.