Hi, On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 19:22:33 +0200, Andreas Florath wrote: > When compiling dpkg on a computer without a working and already > installed dpkg, the architecture is not set correctly. The following is > done during the run of the configuration script: > > bash-3.2$ ./dpkg-architecture.pl -ti686-pc-linux-gnu -qDEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU > dpkg-architecture.pl: failure: dpkg --print-architecture failed: No such > file or directory > > which results in an empty ARCHITECTURE in the new build dpkg. > > Is this a (known) bug or a feature? How to compile dpkg first time?
A minor bug, given that people do not bootstrap that often. Anyway this can be fixed, as «dpkg --print-architecture» is only needed to set the $deb_build_arch, which is not needed at all for DEB_HOST_ARCH* variables (well, that's not enterely true, it might need setting if gcc is not present, but in that case you cannot build dpkg anyway ;). So the code setting $deb_build_arch could be changed to do that on demand. I'll put that in the TODO list, for a future refactoring of the code, for now the fastest way is what Andreas said. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
