[oe] [PATCH] dpkg: Avoid automatic target architecture detection

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 06/08/2016 at 19:16:41 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote :
> Wrong ML, send it to openembedded-core ML.
> 

Indeed, I'll do that.

> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Alexandre Belloni <
> alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> > dpkg is using a script (dpkg-architecture.pl) to detect the target
> > architecture automatically.
> > Unfortunately, it is using the cross compiler prefix to do the detection
> > and for ARM, oe-core is using <vendor>-linux-gnueabi for toolchains with
> > and without call-convention hard. The script then always detects
> > 'armel' and never gets 'armhf' for call-convention hard.
> >
> > This solves:
> > dpkg: error processing archive evtest_1.32+0+b8343ec112-r0_armhf.deb
> > (--install):
> >  package architecture (armhf) does not match system (armel)
> >  Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  evtest_1.32+0+b8343ec112-r0_armhf.deb
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> > b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> > index 440a500..1f29113 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc
> > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "\
> >                 "
> >
> >  EXTRA_OECONF += "TAR=tar"
> > +EXTRA_OECONF += "DEB_HOST_ARCH=${DPKG_ARCH}"
> >
> >  do_configure () {
> >      echo >> ${S}/m4/compiler.m4
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
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