On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:22:27AM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On 06/09/11 04:07, Bob Tracy wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:21:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > >> (...) > >> Many have failed because of a broken ghostscript install. Unfortunately > >> the newest ghostscript failed to build but I plan to have a closer look > >> at that in the next couple of days. So ignore any packages with the > >> error: "Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps." > >> (...) > > > > I don't know what the latest version is, but "9.02~dfsg-3" should build > > fine with any sane tool chain. > > No it does not. It FTBFS with the new multiarch toolchain because it > makes incorrect assumptions about the locations of system include files. > See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639073
Harumph! I *did* say "sane" toolchain :-). Mine's old enough to qualify under the circumstances, but as we've discussed previously, my environment isn't the official one that buildd boxes have to use. I admit the move to arch-specific includes has the potential to be a big win from multiple perspectives when the smoke clears. Until then... Forgive my ignorance, but is the "multiarch toolchain" idea something that other UN*X-like OSs are adopting? The way things have traditionally been organized under "/usr/include" on the various UN*X and UN*X-like OSs hasn't scaled well over the past 35 years, and the resulting mess is going to be painful to sort out. I noticed another change in "the way things are done" which is a clear violation of the principle of least astonishment: it appears "/var/run" is now symlinked to "/run" following a recent upgrade I applied. This broke "radvd" which wants to put its PID file in a subdirectory of "/var/run" (/var/run/radvd). Yeah, it's probably a bad idea for "radvd" to be doing that, but moving "/var/run" without looking for side-effects was a bad idea too. As a rule, I like as little filesystem I/O on the root fs as possible. If "/run" on a fresh installation is a separate filesystem (maybe even a tmpfs type), I could understand the change. Otherwise, "/run" isn't the brightest idea the powers that be ever unleashed on us. Just my opinion, and worth what you paid for it :-). --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
