arm builder versus buildvm-26.phx2 , different results ?

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:40:41PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > Sorry I'm little busy right now, to detail much but I submit the same
> > build twice, one ended in arm builder and fails the other ended in
> > buildvm-26.phx2 and don't failed, so I though this much be reported ... 
> > 
> > 
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6549489 
> > 
> > 
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6549556 
> > 
> > 
> > in arm builder , build.log fails on perl tests, 
> > t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests (Wstat: 1024 Tests: 297 Failed: 4) 
> > 
> > the problem is in package or in builders ? 
> > 
> 
> At a guess, the problem is that debhelper's
> t/buildsystems/autoconf/configure doesn't handle --host.
> 
> Why that's getting passed on arm, I can't precisely say.
> 

The answer appears to be because dpkg thinks DEB_BUILD_ARCH and
DEB_HOST_ARCH are different for us (arm versus armel respectively.) and
this means it doesn't run dh_auto_test properly.

The reason for that is more complicated, and it appears to think we're
cross-compiling because dpkg --print-architecture and gcc -dumpmachine
lead dpkg to think we're arm in one case and armel in the other through
the archtable.

--Kyle