Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 00:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2017 at 22:48:23 +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > > I'm a little nervous about doing a chroot when the host system and > > the one in the chroot are from so many generations apart. > > wheezy (Debian 7) to jessie (Debian 8) is o

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
Oops, I misspoke, the old system is Debian 5, lenny. The system the disks are on is running Debian 7, wheezy. And the system I am targetting is Debian 8, jessie. So the chroot would be lenny while the real system wouldl be wheezy. The wheezy system already hosts VM's with libvirt. But getting th

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 09 May 2017 at 22:48:23 +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > I'm a little nervous about doing a chroot when the host system and > the one in the chroot are from so many generations apart. wheezy (Debian 7) to jessie (Debian 8) is only one release cycle. I would expect a wheezy chroot to run well o

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
Like all the others, it probably won't be as easy to do as to contemplate :) Ross From: Boylan, Ross Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 12:41:53 PM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Forward porting a package I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, altho

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Any suggestions?  Would rerunning autoconf be likely to help? > [...] > > Something like that. You might need to use autoreconf, or > ./autogen.sh, rather than invoking autoconf directly. See for more in this area. Regards, --

Re: Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 19:41 +, Boylan, Ross wrote: > I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, although the package is from > wheezy.  I only need db4.2-util.  I got the source and modified > changed tcl8.4 to tcl8.6 in rules and control.  But the build > (invoked with dpkg-buildpackage) fails whil

Forward porting a package

2017-05-09 Thread Boylan, Ross
I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, although the package is from wheezy. I only need db4.2-util. I got the source and modified changed tcl8.4 to tcl8.6 in rules and control. But the build (invoked with dpkg-buildpackage) fails while running configure with checking size of char *... 0 checki