On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: > > On 20 Sep 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.4.1.9 > > Severity: important > > > > This package refuses to build on Alpha. The error message is: > > > > checking system architecture... configure: error: failed: use --with-arch= > > or --target= > > make: *** [/home/buildd/build/dpkg-1.4.1.9/debian/build/config.status] > > Error 1 > > Just an addendum to this, John and I know how to work around this, but I > can submit a patch if needed to eliminate this. It only happens when > using an Alpha that isn't older. For instance, running config.guess on my > Alpha (164SX) returns alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu. The quick fix while > compiling things is to add --host=alpha-debian-linux-gnu to the configure > line in rules, but it's much better to change the config.sub to recognise > "alpha*" rather than just "alpha" (or just add a few machine type names to > it). > > Again, if you'd like, I can submit a patch for this. I'll work on > generating one right now just in case...
I've done the patch. It's a simple one to archtable that adds all of the known Alphas to it. This should also close the weird bug that a previous alpha user had with dpkg printing the actual machine type rather than just "alpha". Here's the patch: diff -ruN dpkg-1.4.1.9/archtable dpkg-patched/archtable --- dpkg-1.4.1.9/archtable Sun Nov 1 11:01:27 1998 +++ dpkg-patched/archtable Mon Sep 20 16:03:37 1999 @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ pentium i386 i486 sparc sparc sparc alpha alpha alpha +alphaev4 alpha alpha +alphaev5 alpha alpha +alphaev56 alpha alpha +alphaev6 alpha alpha +alphapca56 alpha alpha m68k m68k m68k arm arm arm ppc powerpc powerpc
