bug#308: Lnx-bbc-bugs] bug#308: Lnx-bbc-bugs] bug#308: Package: XFree86

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:52:16PM -0800, Sam Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:41:51PM -0800, Sam Phillips wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:55:43PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote:
> > > commence  Michael H. Frey quotation:
> > > 
> > > > There appears to be a bug in the build files for pswrap. the path to
> > > > the bison.simple file is incorrect.  My build system is RH 8.0, the
> > > > gar/X11/XFree86/work/xc/lib/dps just before pswrap builds fine, and
> > > > appears to have the same references to bison.  Any help in correcting
> > > > the problem would be appreciated.    Mike
> > > 
> > > We do not currently support building the BBC on anything other than
> > > Debian stable or Debian testing, although our ultimate long-term goal
> > > is for the system to be as close self-hosting as is practicable.
> > > 
> > > In the meantime, please consider using the chroot method for your
> > > build:
> > > 
> > > http://www.lnx-bbc.org/chroot.html
> > 
> > I'm running the chroot here and I seem to be getting the same result.
> > Going to see if this was a recently introduced bug.
> 
> So a quick scan of the cvs tree seems to indicate that bison hasn't been
> updated in 2 months and that before Jan 30th the only changes to XFree86
> were made on Jan 8.

Ok.  I feel dumb.  In the case of the chroot this was me not properly
filling in the gar.conf.mk file.  I'm going to run a test of RH8 (mainly
because I can) to see what shakes loose.

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