Re: Pre-DEBIAN 8.0 install images for ALPHA architecture (debian-ports unstable release)

[Gianluca Bonetti <gl@decadence.it>]

2015-06-01 8:12 GMT+02:00 Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>:
>> Another thing to note, there is no xfs support in kernel, so I had to
>> choose ext4 but xfs is my preferred.
>
> Is that because the module is not built, or because the module does
> not load because of relocation errors?

The modules is built and present, but gives relocation errors on insmod.

>> Now that I have a fully working 8.0 system, I would like to help as I could.
>> Let me know or ask whatever could be done.
>
> Fixing the build failure of cmake would be really helpful!  See
> my other message to the debian-alpha emai list just posted.

Well, I witnessed that cmake-3.2.2 does not build and ends with an
error when building by "dpkg-buildpackage -b"
There is only one error, for a failing test:
 32/373 Test  #32: CompileFeatures
..................................***Failed    7.83 sec

Subsequent "dpkg-buildpackage -b -nc" builds the packages instead.
So I end up with these packages being built.
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2,7M giu  2 00:51 cmake_3.2.2-2_alpha.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1,3M giu  2 00:51 cmake-curses-gui_3.2.2-2_alpha.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1023K giu  2 00:51 cmake-data_3.2.2-2_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  135M giu  2 00:58 cmake-dbg_3.2.2-2_alpha.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  715K giu  2 00:52 cmake-doc_3.2.2-2_all.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1,4M giu  2 00:51 cmake-qt-gui_3.2.2-2_alpha.deb

I will try to investigate on the failing test, but I cannot bet I am
skilled enough to debug it.

Bye
gl