openhackware version 0.4.1-4 failed to build on i386 (powerpc only)

[Matthias Klose]

openhackware version 0.4.1-4 failed to build on i386
Link to failed build: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110329/+buildjob/2406223

Direct link to the build log: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20110329/+buildjob/2406223/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-i386.openhackware_0.4.1-4_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

This log snippet might be of interest, since it triggered the matcher 'Purging chroot-autobuild'.
Excerpt 775 lines into the build log:

dpkg-source: info: extracting openhackware in openhackware-0.4.1
dpkg-source: info: unpacking openhackware_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: info: applying openhackware_0.4.1-4.diff.gz
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor):
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package openhackware
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.4.1-4
 dpkg-source --before-build openhackware-0.4.1
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
 /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean
debian/rules:14: *** "this package needs to be built with a powerpc-linux-gnu toolchain". Stop.
dpkg-buildpackage: error: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
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Build finished at 20110408-1522
FAILED [dpkg-buildpackage died]
Purging chroot-autobuild/build/buildd/openhackware-0.4.1

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is a long-standing problem that can probably only be fixed by giving the Launchpad buildds the ability to build certain Architecture: all packages on architectures other than i386.