Bug#576374: FTBFS: *** [grfmrgc.bin] Error 1 [alpha, armel, hppa, ia64, s390, sparc]

2010-04-04 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Jonathan, grfcodec is failing to build on all buildds [1], with output like this: Not all, it works on a few architectures. The reason for this is that grfcodec uses upx to do binary compression, which only works on the more common architectures. I've already prepared a new upload that

Bug#576374: FTBFS: *** [grfmrgc.bin] Error 1 [alpha, armel, hppa, ia64, s390, sparc]

2010-04-04 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Matthijs Kooijman wrote: grfcodec is failing to build on all buildds [1], with output like this: Not all, it works on a few architectures. The reason for this is that grfcodec uses upx to do binary compression, which only works on the more common architectures. I've already prepared a new

Bug#576374: FTBFS: *** [grfmrgc.bin] Error 1 [alpha, armel, hppa, ia64, s390, sparc]

2010-04-04 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Jonathan, I don’t know enough to tell whether the compression was important, but if it was, is there a way for a script to ask upx whether it is capable of compressing a given file (or whether it supports ELF files targetted to a given platform)? Nah, it was just a gimmik to make the

Bug#576374: FTBFS: *** [grfmrgc.bin] Error 1 [alpha, armel, hppa, ia64, s390, sparc]

2010-04-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Source: grfcodec Version: 0.9.10+svn2294-1 Severity: serious grfcodec is failing to build on all buildds [1], with output like this: -e [STRIP/UPX] grfmrgc.bin make[1]: *** [grfmrgc.bin] Error 1 Maybe there is a missing build-time dependency. [1]

Bug#576374: FTBFS: *** [grfmrgc.bin] Error 1 [alpha, armel, hppa, ia64, s390,, sparc]

2010-04-03 Thread Rubidium
It just fails because UPX fails even though it is installed. Apparently it doesn't support all platforms Debian supports. Nevertheless there are attempts to get upstream to remove the requirement on UPX or at least make it easy to disable. Reegards, Remko Bijker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to