On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:46:35PM +0200, Nils Olav Fossum enlightened us:
> Tirsdag 08 april 2008 21:41, skrev Matt Hyclak:
> > > > My testing of today's 4.8 still requires this patch for DOSemu to work.
> > > > Comments?
> > >
> > > I start getting the feeling that there must be something wrong with our
> > > build system.
> 
> yes, we should start looking at it.
> The current system has too many dependencies on the host.
> 
> > > I am not able to reproduce your problem.
> 
> I have never seen it either.
> 
> >
> > /etc/master runs all the way through, then when it goes to launch DOSemu,
> > it says it is unable to find librt.so and bails out.
> >
> > My build system is CentOS 5, pretty stripped down since I run all of my RPM
> > builds in mock (which uses a chroot). Versions that might be worth
> > mentioning are:
> >
> > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.i686
> > glibc-2.5-18.el5_1.1.i386
> > gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
> >
> > librt.so is included in the glibc-devel package, which is installed. There
> > is also a version included in the nptl-devel package
> > (/usr/lib/nptl/librt.so) which is *not* installed - I'm not sure if the
> > boot disk is trying to use nptl or not...
> 
> librt.so is in libc6-dev on Debian-based systems.
> I think the patch should go in while we investigate the build system.
> I have not tested, but it seems harmless.
> 
> My theory:
> Glibc is heavy patched and with diverting settings and patchlevels by the 
> distributions.
> Our build system does not handle diverting hosts.
>

Quite possible.

> >
> > I'm also having problems with mysql when ncurses-devel and libtermcap-devel
> > are not installed. I've uninstalled them for now to see if Nils'
> > modifications to the Makefile fix that or not.
> 
> oh, sorry
> I must clarify that.
> I have stopped looking at it, as Im not using mysql.
> But, yes, it is another example of dependency on the building host.
> ncurses-devel is the easy short-term solution.. :-/

The good news is that it all still works, so long as I build with
ncurses-devel and libtermcap-devel installed. I don't think it's
unreasonable to expect certain things be available on the build host as long
as we've documented them.

Matt

-- 
Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
(740) 593-1263

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