[debhelper-devel] debhelp test fail when buil on Fedora arm

[Sérgio Basto]

Hi, 
when we try build last debhelper on Fedora arm  we got a test failed
[1]  
#   Failed test 'autoconf/stamp_configure contains extra args'
#   at t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests line 472.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[0] = '--host=arm-linux-gnueabi'
#     $expected->[0] = Does not exist
#   Failed test 'autoconf/stamp_test exists'
#   at t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests line 477.
#   Failed test 'bld/dir/stamp_configure contains extra args'
#   at t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests line 472.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[0] = '--host=arm-linux-gnueabi'
#     $expected->[0] = '--extra-autoconf-configure-arg'
#   Failed test 'bld/dir/stamp_test exists'
#   at t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests line 477.
# Looks like you failed 4 tests of 297.
t/buildsystems/buildsystem_tests .. 
Dubious, test returned 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
Failed 4/297 subtests 

I have a bug report on bugzilla [2] where you got all information
available .
The most relevant info is on [3] and it says "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."  

Anyway this package is an noarch, not arch dependent, and the Perl test
only fails on an arm builder.
Perl test proves or not, that can run incorrectly on Fedora arm and not
in a Debian arm ? 
This doesn't make sense, because package is an noarch,  so or the
test is wrong and can't test arches or debhelper is "archable" and we
got a problem only in arm , am I thinking correctly ?  


Thanks, 

[1] 
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/893/9560893/build.log 

[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134914 

 
[3]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-February/195746.html

-- 
Sérgio M. B.