[cross] The package explicitly passes gcc as the compiler name which prevents cross compilation

[Peter Pearse]

debian/rules has gcc hard coded, rather than allow cross compilers to be used.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libffi5 3.0.9-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 24 09:14:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libffi

[Peter Pearse (peter-pearse)]

Example debian/rules patch

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Matthias, since you seem to be the maintainer of this package in Debian as well, could you review Peter's patch and consider applying it to libffi? It looks correct to me; all the biarch/triarch builds are left untouched, and for single-arch builds there should be no need to override CC.

(BTW, why not just set $(m32) in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS, instead of overriding the compiler?)

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

> BTW, why not just set $(m32) in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS, instead of overriding the compiler?

afaicr, the testsuite then fails for the biarch tests.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

didn't check when I fixed it, but it's at least in oneiric