Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] jailkit problem when building 1.2 system

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Mon, February 26, 2007 10:18, Dmitry Komarov wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007 17:57, Bruce Smith wrote:
>
>>>>> I'm not quite new to devil-linux and have used the distro for
>>>>> several projects in the past. But it's always a pain when you want
>>>>> to rebuild it yourself - even the "stable" 1.2.xx branch. :(
>>>>>
>>>>> Now again I need to compile a smaller version of DL with reduced
>>>>> number of applications. But the build process stops at jailkit
>>>>> claiming I need to have Python installed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas? Python is enabled in .config file, base system is
>>>>> lfssystem-cvs-20030127-i486-stripped.tar.bz2
>>>>
>>>> It's stopping in the 'build' phase (as opposed to the 'install'
>>>> phase)?
>>>>
>>>> Check the logs for jailkit and Python in /data/build/tmp/LOGS/build
>>>>  (in the LFS chroot).  Anything helpful there?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it's stopping at build phase. Nothing more helpfull in the log
>>> except the statement that I have to have Python installed for jailkit
>>> to compile.
>>>
>>> I even tried to make a fake "done" flag for jailkit and wait for the
>>> other packages to compile first (it helped me in the past in some
>>> cases). But even if I try to build the jailkit as the last package -
>>> the same error there.
>>
>> Are you SURE that Python built OK?  Check it's log file.
>>
>>
>> Inside the chroot, type:  python
>> followed by two TAB's.  It should list all python binaries in your path:
>>
>>
>> root:/data/build# python
>> python     python2    python2.3
>>
>
> Miracle.
>
>
> After removing everything under /build/tmp and re-running make again -
> everything compiled OK.
>
> What can be the issue?..

Sometimes things get messed up when you're doing testing.
If you have strange problems, there are always 2 things you should do:
1) delete the lfssystem folder and unpack to have a fresh and clean build
system
2) run 'make mrproper' to clean up build/tmp

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org