Patches are useless when you (ptx) don't have the OS to test it.
I would really suggest adding more platforms than just Debian (Ubuntu is
pretty much a Debian), even though for most Debian users their OS is the
center of the know universe ;-)
The python problem seems a dependency problem of xcb-proto.in which you
won't notice when your host system uses python >= 2.5 ;-)
The compiler on RHEL is to old to build the glibc headers for a x86
compiler;
target: glibc-headers.prepare
.
.
.
checking cpuid.h usability... no
checking cpuid.h presence... configure: error: gcc must provide the
<cpuid.h> header
no
checking for cpuid.h... no
For a arm compiler it has the problem that the binutils don't support
cfi_sections;
target: glibc-headers.prepare
.
.
.
checking whether the CFI directive .cfi_sections is supported... no
After fixing those problems I ran into the next problem; host-glibc can
not be build because magic.h is not installed in /usr/include/linux/ but
in some /usr/src/kernel/VERSION/include/linux/ dir.
And now I fixed that the host-python is build and it is still not found;
target: xcb-proto.prepare
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.5... none
configure: error: no suitable Python interpreter found
And I have the feeling this list will go on and on.
Problems like that would be quickly noticed by adding some other
platforms to the list of platforms on which ptxdist is testet, even if
it is just to warn ppl that it currently does not work on platform X.
For now I have to give up on this cause I ran out of time, I will just
build it on my own machine and will have to inform the client his server
is useless for the moment :-/
- Erwin
On 15-3-2011 11:59, Robert Schwebel wrote:
Hi Erwin,
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:51:13AM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
Is there a list of supported distributions for ptxdist. I am using
RHEL 5.5 (actually CentOS 5.5) and have big troubles to use ptxdist
on that distribution. And RHEL 5.5 is not exactly an "exotic"
distribution.
Problems I had/have are (but not limited to);
1 - host GCC is not able to build new toolchains
2 - host binutils is not able to build new toolchains
3 - host python is 2.4 which is not enough for several Xorg packages
(need 2.5)
So I am going from one problem to another.
So hence the question what distros is ptxdist tested on and the
suggestion to add CentOS 5.X (and the upcoming 6.X) to that list.
We use Debian and Ubuntu here. If something goes wrong on other
distributions, please send proper bug reports with error output, or
better: patches to fix the issues.
rsc
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