Bug#1144189: c-t-b-ports fails to building glibc for arc-linux-gnu

Hi

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 08:40:15PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> It does matter. Your solution works at build time, but it doesn't work 
> at runtime.

What are you talking about?!?  runtime or build time does not make a
difference on the existence of the kernel headers in
/usr/GNU_HOST/include.  Please explain how this could happen.

>             Something has to provide the kernel headers for the cross 
> glibc and cross compiler to work. In the past it was 
> linux-libc-dev-arc-cross and libc6-dev-arc-cross depends on it for that 
> purpose.

And what changed?  libc6-dev-arc-cross still depends on
linux-libc-dev-arc-cross, at least if this was not broken due to related
changes in cross-toolchain-base-ports.

> Therefore I see two options:
> - linux-libc-dev provides the arc kernel headers

It does?!?

> - cross-toolchaine-base-ports continues to build 
>   linux-libc-dev-arc-cross 

No, src:linux provides linux-libc-dev-arc-cross.  If you think this is
incorrect, please talk to the CTTE, as this is part of a understanding
created within their reach last year at DebConf 25.

Bastian