bug#347: Lnx-bbc-bugs] bug#347: I can't build HEAD

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:14:38PM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  The ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen  quotation:
> > HEAD doesn't build in our chroot, or, I think, any other chroot which
> > has been published.
> 
> 	This is beside the point, as there are others who can build
> HEAD and test its functionality.
> 
> > If you can publish a chroot which can build HEAD, or point me to one,
> > then I can test things in HEAD before committing them to STABLE.
> 
> 	Just edit the sources.list in our published chroot to point to
> debian testing, and dist-upgrade.

I did that, recently:  I rsync'ed a copy of the woody chroot from my
known-good working copy, then did a dist-upgrade inside it and cvs
updated to HEAD, and tried to build.

I get the same error, in the same place, that Charles Lacour reports
in #342:

[snip]
make  -C sunrpc others
make[2]: Entering directory
/home/deejoe/gar/devel/glibc/work/main.d/glibc-2.3.1/sunrpc'
CPP='i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E -x c-header'  ../elf/ld-linux.so.2
--library-path
..:../math:../elf:../dlfcn:../nss:../nis:../rt:../resolv:../crypt:../linuxthreads
./rpcgen -Y ../scripts -c rpcsvc/bootparam_prot.x -o
xbootparam_prot.T
FATAL: kernel too old
make[2]: *** [xbootparam_prot.stmp] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
/home/deejoe/gar/devel/glibc/work/main.d/glibc-2.3.1/sunrpc'
make[1]: *** [sunrpc/others] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
/home/deejoe/gar/devel/glibc/work/main.d/glibc-2.3.1'
make: *** [build-work/main.d/glibc-2.3.1/Makefile] Error 2


The Debian-woody host in this case is running 2.4.18-bf24.  I don't
know what Lacour's or Schoen's systems are running (or if, indeed,
Seth gets so far yet to see this same error:  Seth?)

apt-cache search shows other flavors of 2.4.18 kernel available for
woody (386, 686, k7, etc) but none of them are newer than 2.4.18.

Based on the fact that HEAD builds on stuff currently in sarge, I've
been working under the inference that the system hosting the chroot
will need to have a newer kernel, for example either one custom-built
or something available currently in sarge, in order to build HEAD.

STABLE has 2.4.19, so that might even do the trick.


The only place I can find intelligible (to me) reference to this sort
of thing is in the context of hppa-linux:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2002/debian-glibc-200212/msg00084.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2002/debian-glibc-200212/msg00087.html


--Joe