Debian Bug report logs - #990794
binutils FTCBFS: does not honour DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck for some architectures

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From: Helmut Grohne <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: binutils FTCBFS: does not honour DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck for some architectures

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 18:34:37 +0200

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Source: binutils
Version: 2.35.2-2
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ftcbfs
User: [email protected]
Usertags: rebootstrap

binutils' debian/rules has code to specifically ignore
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck when building for e.g. m68k. I suppose this is
in place to override buildd maintainers that set this option. Working
around such disagreements using code seems like a suboptimal solution,
but I prefer not being dragged into this dispute. Unfortunately, it
happens to break cross building e.g. from amd64 to m68k. As a
compromise, I propose reducing the impact of this code to specifically
exempt all cross builds from ignoring nocheck. Would that be acceptable?

I'm attaching a patch for unstable for your convenience. It doesn't
apply cleanly to experimental. Another form of the patch is:

    sed -i -e 's/ifeq (\(,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),\)/ifneq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH)\1/' debian/rules

Helmut

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