Re: chroot for head?

Paul Gray <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:03:46 -0600 (CST)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.bbc.devel
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On 15 Dec 2003, Rob Nichols wrote:

>
> Trying to build HEAD from yesterday using Paul Gray's Mandrake chroot.
> (Paul, thanks for making that available.  I'm not a Debian user, and
> had trouble upgrading the chroot from lnx-bbc.org.)  I'm getting "C
> compiler cannot create executables" from e2fsprogs.  Anyone else
> getting this?  Hints?
>
> What do others use to build HEAD?
>

I assume that it's freaking at the configure stage?  Check the config.log
in the e2fsprogs working directory for clues.

Did you

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

after unpacking the chroot?  If not, it'd be recommended.

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