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

Kyle McMartin kyle at redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 12:58:48 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:39:38AM +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> so is dpkg fault ? 
> 
> Thanks, but what should I do ? report upstream ? 
> 

Well, given for armv7hl-redhat-linux-gnu, I think we want "armhfp" to be
our architecture... I wouldn't quite "blame" anyone, but we probably
need a translation layer between our triplet, and Debian's idea of what
it means.

--Kyle


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