Bug#838866: vorbis-tools FTCBFS: does not honour DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

2016-09-25 23:16 Helmut Grohne:
>Source: vorbis-tools
>Version: 1.4.0-10
>Tags: patch
>User: helmutg at debian.org
>Usertags: rebootstrap
>
>vorbis-tools fails to cross build from source, because it runs tests
>even when invoked with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Tests naturally fail,
>because host architecture executables cannot be executed at all in a
>cross build setting. The attached patch implements the necessary
>handling of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Please consider applying it.
>
>After applying it, vorbis-tools does not become cross buildable. It also
>fails to find ao.pc using pkg-config, because ao.pc does not live in a
>multiarch path. So #638741 needs to be fixed as well for actually cross
>building vorbis-tools.

This patch looks sensible and worth on its own right, and I would like
to get it applied.

Does it help if I prepare a NMU for this?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>