[parisc-linux] Fun build problems

[parisc-linux] Fun build problems

[Paul J.Y. Lahaie]

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Hello everyone,

    Over the last couple of days, I've been trying to get the debian
boot-floppies building (I know some changes will be necessary) and as
it stands now, several packages are missing.  In the process of trying
to compile/install these packages, I've run into some difficulties.
Here are some of them:

apt   -- Package on pehc and .iso do not work.  Missing lots of helper apps.

Seeing as apt was broken, I decided to download the woody version of apt so
I can get a newer version and hopefully skip some steps in building the
above packages.  gcc 2.96 and apt-0.3.19 don't get along, so I tried picking
it up from cvs (supposed to have been fixed).  Follow the directions on
cvs.debian.org

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/APT login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.debian.org)
CVS password: 
cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.debian.org rejected access

Anyone know if there are other instructions other than what cvs.debian.org
says?  If so, feel free to email me


rsync -- ldd crashes on dpkg-shlibdepends stage

Can I just manually put the required dependancies in?


autoconf -- installinfo spins

When installing the autoconf package (to compile dpkg) installinfo spins.
And after several minutes still doesn't return.  It's taking up 100% cpu
at the time.

If I abort this, autoconf seems to be installed but cannot generate the
dpkg configure properly, some macros are missing

AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_CPLUSPLUS, test "$CXX" != "")

Is in the ./configure script.


info -- Reinstall spins

If I try to reinstall info, it spins on the uninstall.  100% cpu.


If anyone has any solutions for any of the above problems, I am all
ears (eyes?).

							- Paul

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Re: [parisc-linux] Fun build problems

[Randolph Chung]

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> Seeing as apt was broken, I decided to download the woody version of apt so
> I can get a newer version and hopefully skip some steps in building the
> above packages.  gcc 2.96 and apt-0.3.19 don't get along, so I tried picking
> it up from cvs (supposed to have been fixed).  Follow the directions on
> cvs.debian.org
> 
> $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/APT login
> (Logging in to anonymous@cvs.debian.org)
> CVS password: 
> cvs login: authorization failed: server cvs.debian.org rejected access

Try:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/deity login
(empty password)

It should work. if not let me know and i can mail you a tarball. You
probably want to get the aliencode branch, which has hppa patches. Let
me know if you run into any problems.

> rsync -- ldd crashes on dpkg-shlibdepends stage
> Can I just manually put the required dependancies in?

Yes, or pick up the dpkg-architecture and dpkg-shlibdeps scripts from
http://puffin.external.hp.com/~tausq/, or wait for the next version of
dpkg to get built for hppa (it doesn't use ldd anymore)

> autoconf -- installinfo spins
> 
> When installing the autoconf package (to compile dpkg) installinfo spins.
> And after several minutes still doesn't return.  It's taking up 100% cpu
> at the time.

hmmm.. didn't see this. I had built a slightly older version of dpkg
successfully.

randolph (tausq@debian.org)
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