[Pkg-octave-devel] m68k okay, arm not

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-02-28 14:26]:

> On 28-Feb-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> | Have you tried to compile Octave on m68k already?
> 
> No.  Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> gave me an account on an
> m68k system, but then said that it did not have the same set of tools
> as the buildd system.  I thought it would be easy to get access to a
> system that already had the same set of tools that are on the buildd
> system where the failure is happening.  With that, I might be able to
> fix Octave so that it avoids the compiler bug, but I don't have time
> to also set up the build tools.  I'm not sure I would even know how to
> install all the right versions of the tools.

My understanding is that the buildd machines compile the packages in a
chroot with the unstable distribution installed in it.  What you need is a
machine with such a chroot.  Then, root needs just to run apt-get build-dep
octave2.1 and you are done.  

Christian: would it be possible to set up a minimal chroot for John on your
m68k box?

-- 
Rafael