Debian Bug report logs - #20353
dpkg: dpkg does not properly determine the architecture if gcc is egcs

Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 20:18:01 UTC

Severity: fixed

Done: Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#20353; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg: dpkg does not properly determine the architecture if gcc is egcs
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:17:39 -0800
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.21

Here is a patch to aclocal.m4 to fix the problem.

Note: this is a copy and paste, so --ignore-whitespace may be necessary to get patch to apply it cleanly.

--- aclocal.m4~ Thu Mar  5 06:06:59 1998
+++ aclocal.m4  Sat Mar 28 12:14:00 1998
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
 changequote(, )dnl
   libgcc="`${CC} --print-libgcc-file-name`"
   host_alias="`echo ${libgcc} |
-       sed -e 's,^.*/gcc-lib/,,; s,/libgcc\.a$,,; s,/[0-9.][0-9.]*$,,'`"
+       sed -e 's,^.*/gcc-lib/,,; s,/libgcc\.a$,,; s,/.*[0-9.][0-9.]*$,,'`"
   case ${host_alias} in
    *-linux{,elf,aout})
     host_alias="`echo ${host_alias} | sed 's/\([^-]*\)-linux.*/\1/'`"


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (frozen)
Kernel Version: Linux cerberus 2.0.33 #2 Fri Mar 20 19:33:40 PST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.7pre1-4
libg++272	Version: 2.7.2.8-0.1
ncurses3.4	Version: 1.9.9g-8


Severity set to `fixed'. Request was from Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Noted your statement that bug has been forwarded to ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk. Request was from Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg-iwj'. Request was from Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg-iwj' to `dpkg'. Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why ! Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg'. Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


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