Hi! On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 08:54:53 +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote: > * Neil Williams <[email protected]>: > | [...] So it should be entirely possible to build dpkg > | without having dpkg installed (it would make it impossible to > | bootstrap new architectures otherwise).
Well not impossible, just slightly more complicated. But in any case, yes that's something that should not be required. > So, what is failing? > > (cd $srcdir/scripts; PERL5LIB=$(pwd) $PERL dpkg-architecture.pl -t$host > -qDEB_HOST_ARCH 2>/dev/null) > > Let me remove 2>/dev/null: > > checking dpkg architecture name... Can't exec "dpkg": No such file or > directory at /home/gzp/src/dpkg-1.16.1/scripts/Dpkg/Arch.pm line 52. > dpkg-architecture.pl: error: dpkg --print-architecture failed: No such file > or directory > configure: error: cannot determine host dpkg architecture > > Without installed dpkg I can't configure 1.16.1 Ineed, sorry I had forgotten about that. This is a known current limitation as noted by the comment in the code in get_raw_build_arch() “# FIXME: Handle bootstrapping”. I'll try to fix this for my next push. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
