[Debian-ports-devel] Bug#883424: build-essential: Please enable Debian Ports architectures for cross-build-essential

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Source: build-essential
Version: 12.4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi!

I have been in the situation many times where I wanted to cross-build
a package for any of the Debian Ports architectures only to find out
there is no cross-build-essential-$ARCH package for a given ports
architecture $ARCH.

The attached patch enables all ports architectures in the build-essential
package and allows cross-building packages for ports architectures using
sbuild --host=$ARCH.

Alternatively, just comment out alpha, hppa, m68k, powerpcspe, ppc64, sh4,
sparc64 and x32 in debian/cross-targets and run debian/rules debian/control
to regenerate the control file. Although, I'm not sure whether it actually
makes sense to include x32 here.

Either way, would be awesome to have this finally resolved.

Thanks,

Adrian

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diff -Nru build-essential-12.4/debian/control build-essential-12.4/debian/control
--- build-essential-12.4/debian/control	2017-09-17 13:06:17.000000000 +0200
+++ build-essential-12.4/debian/control	2017-09-17 13:06:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -31,6 +31,25 @@
  most people need.   However, if this package and the manual disagree,
  the manual is correct.
 
+Package: crossbuild-essential-alpha
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
 Package: crossbuild-essential-arm64
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
@@ -88,6 +107,44 @@
  to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
  package depends on.
 
+Package: crossbuild-essential-hppa
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
+Package: crossbuild-essential-m68k
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
 Package: crossbuild-essential-mips
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
@@ -164,6 +221,44 @@
  to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
  package depends on.
 
+Package: crossbuild-essential-powerpcspe
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
+Package: crossbuild-essential-ppc64
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
 Package: crossbuild-essential-ppc64el
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
@@ -187,6 +282,63 @@
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
+Package: crossbuild-essential-sh4
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
+Package: crossbuild-essential-sparc64
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
+ If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
+ this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
+ required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
+ .
+ This package contains an informational list of packages which are
+ considered essential for cross building Debian packages.  This
+ package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to
+ have the cross-build-essential packages installed.
+ .
+ If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever
+ a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to cross build the
+ package.  Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs
+ to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this
+ package depends on.
+
+Package: crossbuild-essential-x32
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${cross-essential}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
  If you do not plan to cross build Debian packages, you don't need
  this package.  Starting with sbuild (>= 0.63.0) this package is
  required for cross building Debian packages in a chroot.
diff -Nru build-essential-12.4/debian/cross-targets build-essential-12.4/debian/cross-targets
--- build-essential-12.4/debian/cross-targets	2017-01-26 00:13:03.000000000 +0100
+++ build-essential-12.4/debian/cross-targets	2017-09-17 13:06:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
-#alpha
+alpha
 #amd64
 arm64
 armel
 armhf
-#hppa
+hppa
 #hurd-i386
 #i386
 #ia64
 #kfreebsd-amd64
 #kfreebsd-i386
-#m68k
+m68k
 mips
 mipsel
 #mips64
 mips64el
 powerpc
-#powerpcspe
-#ppc64
+powerpcspe
+ppc64
 ppc64el
 s390x
-#sh4
+sh4
 #sparc
-#sparc64
-#x32
+sparc64
+x32