[Clfs-dev] issues with current svn x86_64 pure 64

[Martin Ward]

Joe Ciccone wrote:
> Martin Ward wrote:
>   
>> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Joe Ciccone wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>>> i'm going from memory here, yep otherwise nothing else would have
>>>>> built correctly, i'll have another look later in the week, i used make
>>>>> perl utilities ext/Errno/pm_to_blib to get errno which is needed for
>>>>> the coreutils testsuite
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Actually, this is really one of the first things you're building with
>>>> that compiler (temp-system). The entire chapter 6 (temp-system)
>>>> build is
>>>> built using the cross-compiler built in chapter 5 (cross-tools).
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>  In this context,  I read "otherwise nothing else would have built
>>> correctly" as referring to the final system.  And if Martin had not
>>> already replied, I would have said the same as he did here.
>>>
>>>  I haven't run the system yet, but sanity checks during the build,
>>> and ldd on random files, all look good.  The problem is purely
>>> within the temporary perl.  Now that I've built the final system, I
>>> can no longer replicate the problem.
>>>
>>> ĸen
>>>   
>>>       
>> Correct, running on a full kde-3.5.10 desktop built from CLFS SVN
>> 11-11-08 (or round about), i still think the problem is with the temp
>> perl (chap 10.4).
>>
>> Looking at Errno_pm.PL in perl-5.10.0/ext/Errno
>> it tries to find the location of errno.h so it then can extract the
>> system specific error numbers, however our errno.h is still sitting in
>> tools/include, we haven't put the anything in usr/include yet
>> the test is around line 148/150
>>     
>>> # Some Linuxes have weird errno.hs which generate
>>>     # no #file or #line directives
>>>     my $linux_errno_h = -e '/usr/include/errno.h' ?
>>>         '/usr/include/errno.h' : '/usr/local/include/errno.h';
>>>     $file{$linux_errno_h} = 1;
>>>       
>> then continues
>>
>> when you've built the final system errno.h is in it's usual
>> place(/usr/include) and the test passes
>>
>>     
> I can confirm these lines in the Makefile, Now what's making me really
> really curious is why myself and dozens of other people havn't seen this
> before now. I havn't started a new build yet but I will mark this email
> so I dont forget to check it next time.
>
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Anyway, just a short thanks to all, i've learned a lot over the last few 
years

cheers

Martin