Brandon Hume wrote:
> I'm giving it a go building 7.2 myself, and I'm running into my own set of
> problems. For the moment, I'm trying to reduce the noise in the log file so
> I can figure out what's wrong.
>
> Right now I've got everything untarred, the ./download-tarballs ran without a
> problem (as soon as I made sure I didn't have GNU make before Sun make in my
> path), and I'm building using "buildit -p".
>
> The BUILD_64 parts are blowing up all over the place, since I'm on a 32 bit
> x86 host. The configure scripts get upset that they can't run the test
> program, and demand the "--host" parameter, which isn't really surprising.
> There's also spots where it SEEMS to be not building the packages because the
> 64-bit parts fail. And then later parts fail because they're looking for
> components built earlier that aren't installed on the system proper. (Some
> spots are linking directly against the installed X libs, rather than those in
> the build tree...)
>
> Should it be trying to build the 64-bit binaries in the first place?
Our build scripts/Makefiles assume they should always try to build
64-bit binaries, which as you've noticed, require running on a
64-bit machine for the configure scripts.
It should be possible to modify them to build the 32-bit ones only
on 32-bit machines, but no one has put in the time to do so.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
