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Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture?



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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 02:56:17PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> To rebuild a Debian package, one can use:
> 
>   debuild -i -us -uc -b
> 
> But how to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture?
> In my case for i386 from an amd64 machine. I've tried
> 
>   debuild -i -us -uc -b -a i386
> 
> but the build fails at some point:
> 
> [...]
> dh_strip -a
> dh_strip: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
> dh_strip: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
> dh_strip: Compatibility levels before 9 are deprecated (level 7 in use)
> Can't exec "i686-linux-gnu-strip": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 358.
> [...]

It seems that you are missing the '386 (or more precisely the '686)
executables. Perhaps you need the package dpkg-cross.

> If I need binutils-i686-linux-gnu, shouldn't dpkg-buildpackage fail
> when checking the build dependencies?

I'll leave that question to someone more knowledgeable.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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