tags 352294 wishlist retitle 352294 Documentation could be improved when erroneously trying to cross-build thanks
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 04:37:18AM +0100, Emilian Nowak wrote: > On 2006-02-10 (Fri), at 21:58:45 Barry Hawkins wrote: > > > Emil, > > Thanks for your use of Debain and java-package; at this time you are > > probably still running Debian i386 on an amd64 kernel, which thwarts the > > archtitecture detection of java-package. Can you please reply to this > > bug with the output of dpkg-architecture from the system in question? > Acually I have i386 system on first partition, and full mad64 on second > partition. > I started up my computer on i386, and later I decided to generate java-package > for my amd64. I didn't want to reboot my computer just to generate those > package. > I have checked that java-package is theoreticaly architecture-independed (the > same package for all architecures) It seems that it is shell scrip. > Sun's self-extracting tarball is shell script as well. No, Sun's 'tarball' is actually an executeable with a shellscript in front of it. You can only run java-package on the target architecture, crosscompilation is not possible. > I hoped that It is possible to generate jre package for amd64 on i386 system, > so next time i boot on amd64 I will have this pacakge ready-to-use. > It seems that make-jkpkg is just extracting tarball and it is packing it back > to *.deb? > > anyway - It's my fault, so please close this bug, or maybe there should be > some > different error message saying: "Error: Downloaded java is for different > architecture" ? Maybe documentation can be improved in this regard, I'm not closing this bug because of that. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
