> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:41:17 -0800 Peter Naulls wrote: > > In message > alan buckley wrote: > >> I've now got it to build, but I had the following >> problems. Can anyone tell me if they were caused >> specifically by my installation or if they are >> general problems? >> >> The build went through most the steps, but then >> just reported failure with no helpful message. > > Add set -x to the build-program script; it's probably exiting somewhere. > I can add an error handler to it. > >> My first thought was I needed to set the >> AB_ELFBUILD variable, so I set it to yes. > > This is the default in any case.
I've done a search and I can't see where AB_ELFBUILD is set at all, so I can't see how that is the default. Is this a problem with my install? Where is AB_ELFBUILD set? [snip elf2aif as John Tygat explain what I had missed] > >> Looking at the files I realised that the riscos zip >> program was missing. >> >> Luckily I remember seeing a check-in of something >> called native-zip in to the autobuilder. So I built >> that and now the packaging of wget works >> perfectly. > > native-zip is supposed to be added as an implicit dependency > to every package. If you can find out why this didn't happen, I'd > appreciate it. I investigated and found this, but realised you had beat me to it when I tried to commit the change. > > One problem you will have is our reliance on apt-cache to generate > dependency information, so you won't pick up all the Debian depedencies. > This requires a small amount of work to parse them from the Sources file > we download for other platforms. > I've had a quick look at this, but am not sure what files apt-cache gets its information from to try to download it and grep it. Can you give me any pointers? Regards, Alan _________________________________________________________________ Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. http://www.searchgamesbox.com _______________________________________________ GCCSDK mailing list [email protected] Bugzilla: http://www.riscos.info/bugzilla/index.cgi List Info: http://www.riscos.info/mailman/listinfo/gcc Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK
