Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:49:49 +0100 From: Michael Hopkins <michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Working and broken Linux ports on amd64 Message-ID: <BE7301FD.36BEE%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com> In-Reply-To: <20050401142926.ffayz4h19ssk4s04@netchild.homeip.net>
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On 1/4/05 1:29 pm, "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:
> David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> This is your basic problem -- the devtools port hasn't been updated to
>> RH8 yet to match the default stock linux_base. If you are skilled with
>> the Ports Collection update this port and send a patch. :-)
>
> We have some inconsistencies in our linux ports (this is just one of them)...
> the RH8 version of the devtools lives in devel/linux_devtools. As Scott
> already mentioned they are lacking the amd64 entry in ONLY_FOR_ARCHES.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
Hi Alexander
In experimental mood I edited linux_devtools-8 last night and called it
linux_devtools-8-amd64. Just added amd64 in ONLY_FOR_ARCHES and hard-coded
i386 into the necessary search paths. Along with linux_base-8 this worked!
:o)
My first go at a port Makefile and first linux cross-compile on FreeBSD in
one go - and all at 4am. Code ran just as it should in Linux mode.
Now it goes downhill - I decided I had been playing about a lot as root with
a tired brain, so I cvsup'd ports and 5_3 and made world & kernel.
Everything still working fine. Then I deinstalled linux_base-8 and
linux_devtools-8-amd64, planning to reinstall them and submit the patch.
For some reason that I REALLY cannot understand, this won't happen because
rpm no longer understands the --dbpath argument!
root@Athlon /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 % make install
===> Installing for linux_base-8-8.0_6
--dbpath: unknown option
*** Error code 1
This also happens at the command line.
root@Athlon /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 % rpm --initdb
root@Athlon /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8 % rpm --initdb --dbpath
/var/lib/rpm
--dbpath: unknown option
Why the heck would this be? I have no idea and I'm feeling pretty tee'd off
that I had it working after many night hours of playing with different ports
now can't get it again.
Any ideas?
M
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