[debhelper-devel] Bug#758008: [debhelper] Pass --without-gcc-arch to configure

[Niels Thykier]

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:46:28 +0000 bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20140613
> Severity: important
> 
> Some package use AX_GCC_ARCH_FLAGS macro for tuning the architecture flags.
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf-archive.git;a=blob_plain;f=m4/ax_gcc_archflag.m4
> 
> It is generally what the user want, except for distribution.
> 
> Could debhelper pass --without-gcc-arch  flag to configure in order to avoid illegal instruction in some package.
> 
> See #757996 for some serious bug.
> 
> Bastien
> 
> 

Hmm, at most 7 packages use this macro according to a trivial code search.

https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=AX_GCC_ARCHFLAG+path%3Aconfigure.%28ac%7Cin%29

Not sure it makes sense to add this directly to debhelper if it is not
more common than this.

Thanks,
~Niels