[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#549407: ivtools 1.2.6-1 FTBFS on sparc and powerpc

[Agustin Martin]

2009/12/6 Agustin Martin <agmartin at debian.org>:
>
> Good news. I finally found the reason for this problem. An explanation
> was not that far. Quoting http://www.ivtools.org/ivtools/faq.html,
>
> -----------------------
> ... For example, most
> PC-based uses of gcc have i386 defined to 1, so a path like
> /usr/src/i386/ivtools-1.0 gets expanded to /usr/src/1/ivtools-1.0. ..
> -----------------------
>
> As I understand it, this problem should also be present in other
> packages using imake.  Not sure if many packages still use imake, but
> if so there is a problem with the temporary dir naming in sbuild.

In case this is ever needed, seems that is enough to change to a
lowbar one of the hyphen $(ARCH) boundaries in tempdir name, like in

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--- Build.pm.orig       2009-11-20 19:48:42.000000000 +0100
+++ Build.pm    2009-12-07 01:00:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
     $self->set('Chroot Build Dir',
               tempdir($self->get_conf('USERNAME') . '-' .
                       $self->get('Package_SVersion') . '-' .
-                      $self->get('Arch') . '-XXXXXX',
+                      $self->get('Arch') . '_XXXXXX',
                       DIR => $session->get('Build Location')));
     # TODO: Don't hack the build location in; add a means to customise
     # the chroot directly.
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Cheers,
-- 
Agustin