[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#475738: Bug#475738: virtualbox-ose:

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:27:34AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> you need to build it yourself, however, it gives a lot of warnings and
> this is the last part where it breaks:
> 
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:191: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pushf'
> {standard input}:192: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `pop'
> ...

Yes, this looks like the well known problem of mixing i386 and amd64
builds. It appears to me that the culprit is lme setting ARCH to i386
when doing a amd64 build on i386, well at least it appears to set it to
this value, please correct me if I'm wrong. The virtualbox-ose Makefile,
however, uses ARCH to learn about the arch it is supposed to build for. 

I haven't tried reproducing this in detail but assuming my assumption is
right, what do we do?

Is ARCH a reserved variable? Or is it just a design decision by lme? Or
in other words, can we change the name of this variable? According to
/usr/src/linux-headers-*/Makefile ARCH should be the target architecture:

When performing cross compilation for other architectures ARCH shall be set
# to the target architecture. (See arch/* for the possibilities).

Isn't this amd64 in this case?

Michael
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