[Debian-ppc64-devel] My iMac crashed when creating a ppc64 chroot

[Charles Plessy]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:22:25AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote :
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:57:31AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I hope it is the correct list for that kind of issuse.
> > 
> > I wanted to create a chroot to test the building of somebody else's
> > package, but my iMac (8,1) crashes while executing debootstrap.
> 
> Why you don't run the normal debian/powerpc userland ? This is the official
> supported way of doing this.

Hi,

I am trying to build debian package for ROOT, an application for
physical sciences[1]. The maintainer is about to upload it to debian. While
trying to build it on the powerpc port, I realised that, when using a
64-bit kernel, the configure script was looking for a fully 64-bit
environement. As a consequence, the package FTBFSes on 64-bit ppc
machines (is it the case of the autobuilders ?). The maintainer is
trying to fix this together with upstream.

[1] http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/

Anyway, this 32/64 bit problem prompted us to check wether the package
builds on a 64-bit environnement, as it is the kind on software which
could benefit of this (although it is a bit unclear). That is why I
tried to build a 64-bit chroot on my G5 (is it the right way to do it?)

Of course, if you tell me that crashes are to be expected, then it
probably does not make sense to try to build it, as it would anyway not
be useful...


Best,

-- 
Charles