Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: Depending on the architecture, this and several other files in /proc may be required by the Boehm garbage collector which is part of gcj's implementation of the Java virtual machine. The quoted message comes from this: ptr_t GC_linux_stack_base(void) { /* We read

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Banck: Are you sure gij-4.3 is not just dragged in via Recommends, i.e. the buildd chroot is properly setup? AFAICT, you did not mention which package failed above (if you can disclose it), so it's hard to investigate further I guess. It's cacao-oj6 and openjdk-6, part of test

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? There are packages that require it. I

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 12:54 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume that /proc/self/stat exist in a

/proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Florian Weimer
This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? The following is from mundy.debian.org, from a testing-security build: | Setting up gij-4.3 (4.3.1-9) ...

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Sat 13 Sep 2008 10:43:40 +0200, a écrit : This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? From a Debian GNU/Hurd point of view, it is well known that /proc is needed for quite a few packages (and that used

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? The following is from