On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Frans van Berckel <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 02:06 -0400, A E [Gmail] wrote: > > > > Thanks for that...but I am such a novice, I'm a little scared and > > feeling out of my league in this yet, I gave it a try as per the > > instructions on that page. They seem to use the unstable version as an > > example but I couldn't figure out a way to point that to the stable > > version to build my 64-bit userland. In any case, I followed the > > instructions. But when I got to chroot, I got a bunch of errors > > (pasted in the end of the email): As you can see below, they all talk > > about libc6 not being installed, when I have them all installed: > > > > > > v100:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep libc6 > > libc6 install > > libc6-dev install > > libc6-dev-sparc64 install > > libc6-sparc64 install > > > > > > Should I remove libc6 and libc6-dev and only the sparc64 versions > > should be there? > > > > > > # chroot sparc64-port dpkg --configure -a > > Sure ... that's doesn't make you happy. Leave dpkg --configure as it is. > And go into the chroot now. And try apt-get update & dist-upgrade. And > next try to install all the build libraries needed. It wont be easy. > > # chroot sparc64-port > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgrade > # apt-get install build-essential > # apt-cache search linux image > # apt-get install linux image > > I have done it on a separated partition and was even able to boot. In > that case you can all-way's checkout Google for a wiki about Debian > Choot Install. Because it will let you do some more needed settings. > > Thanks, > > Frans van Berckel > > > Thanks Frans, I will give this a try. However, the sparc64.conf that's in the example only points to the 'sid' release and inside of it it says suite=unstable. I went to the location from where it was downloading this stuff, but there is no "stable" version there. So do I need to build this chroot environment with libraries/binaries etc from the unstable branch?
