[Simplygnustep-discuss] Build problems

[Peter-Henry M. <gn...@ma...>]

Hi Chad,

Just making notes as I compile, and I need your help as I seem to have 
screwed up along the way. This is the diary so far...

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ftp://ftp.cvshome.org/pub/cvs-1.11.5/cvs-1.11.5.tar.gz got terminally 
stuck, so downloaded it by hand and temporarily removed this line from 
the Prometheus/WorkingTree/Source/Common/SourcesToDownload.txt file.

ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fbset/fbset_2.1.orig.tar.gz was 
getting in a spin:
"Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying."
Again, downloaded by hand, and removed the problem line as above.

ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfsprogs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.4.tar.gz
"Invalid PORT.Retrying."
Ditto, by hand.

Compilation underway... 11:00 GMT (I hope that the 2GHz machine will 
take less than 10 hours!)

Ooops! Can't chroot unless logged on as root! Try again... Ah, here's a 
cryptic message:
!!!!!!!!!!About to start building shared libs!!!!!!!
Make sure eveything is static!

I assume that if everything has built according to plan, this should be 
so, but how do I "Make sure eveything is static"? Is there a way to 
check this? If so, a short explanation would help here.

binutils-2.13.2.1.tar.bz2 had to be changed to bin86-0.16.11.tar.gz in 
Prometheus/WorkingTree/Source/Common
The SourcesToDownload.txt file has binutils-2.13.2.1.tar.bz2 but a 
.tar.gz is expected in one of the scripts. Fixed by recompressing 
binutils-2.13.2.1.tar with gzip, continuing...

make-3.80.tar.bz2 same as above!

Oh dear, I've got a show stopper. Why would
     chgrp: invalid group name `root'
cause a problem? Maybe something to do with the cryptic message above?

Here's the last few lines on the console:

make[4]: Leaving directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80/doc'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80/doc'
make[3]: Entering directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80'
make[4]: Entering directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80'
/bin/sh ./config/mkinstalldirs /usr/bin
   /bin/sh /Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80/config/install-sh 
-c -s make /usr/bin/make
/bin/sh ./config/mkinstalldirs /usr/man/man1
  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./make.1 /usr/man/man1/make.1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Source/SharedLib/Standard/make/make-3.80'
chgrp: invalid group name `root'
make: *** [make/DONE] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Standard/DONE] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/public/GnuSTEP/Prometheus/WorkingTree/Source/SharedLib'
make[1]: *** [SharedLib/DONE] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/public/GnuSTEP/Prometheus/WorkingTree/Source'
make: *** [BUILDING-DONE] Error 2


Ahem! Okay, lets do that again, but starting from scratch as root!

Started from scratch, cvs co and, copied downloaded files in
/public/GnuSTEP/Prometheus/WorkingTree/Source/Common

tar: ../../Common/make-3.80.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
which seems to contradict the previous make-3.80.tar.bz2, anyway, added 
*both* make-3.80.tar.gz and make-3.80.tar.bz2 which seems to have fixed 
the problem for now.

Here's that message again...
!!!!!!!!!!About to start building shared libs!!!!!!!
Make sure eveything is static!
Proceeding regardless (like the wreckless fool I am!)

Nope! same problem.

What do I do now?