Re: [Scratchbox-users] Notes on building crosstool compilers and crocodile packages for powerpc (PPC) using scratchbox

2007-01-02 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:49:33PM -0500, Jim Heck wrote: > Riku Voipio wrote: > >The issue here is that flex provides libfl.a, which is arch-specific. > >Therefor some packages fail to build if flex is not installed on target. > >build dependencies of flex are included in doctools devkits, so addi

Re: [Scratchbox-users] Notes on building crosstool compilers and crocodile packages for powerpc (PPC) using scratchbox

2007-01-02 Thread Jim Heck
Riku Voipio wrote: **5.1. From Scratchbox 1.0.7 on, flex is not regarded as a provided package when checking debian build deps. This is fixed with the following, performed inside scratchbox. The issue here is that flex provides libfl.a, which is arch-specific. Therefor some packages f

Re: [Scratchbox-users] Notes on building crosstool compilers and crocodile packages for powerpc (PPC) using scratchbox

2007-01-02 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:41:30AM -0500, Jim Heck wrote: > The installation hung in the stage where it was running the preinstall > scripts for the packages. This may have had something to do with > autofs, since the installation creates an sbox user. I confirmed that > scratchbox installs on

[Scratchbox-users] Notes on building crosstool compilers and crocodile packages for powerpc (PPC) using scratchbox

2006-12-21 Thread Jim Heck
Since I've been recently coming up the learning curve, I thought to copy some of my notes here in the hope that they might help some people. This covers building your own foreign toolchain and then install that in scratchbox to build crocodile packages for powerpc. Here are some notes. I was