Re: gdcm: Got a SIGABRT while executing native code
On Sat, 30 May 2009 16:00:07 +0200
Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Mirco Bauer <meebey@debian.org>
> wrote: ...
> > That it freaks out like this is probably a bug, not sure if SIGABRT
> > is ok for expected fatal conditions.
> >
> > The issue is that some (but not all) buildds do not have a writable
> > home-directory. The Mono runtime is emulating some I/O features that
> > Microsoft .NET supports using that .wapi directory in $HOME. Most
> > applications don't need this emulation though, so either the
> > emulation should be disabled or a writable home-directory set. This
> > common issue is also mentioned in the Debian CLI Policy §4.3 [0]
> >
> > The recommended version is now to disable it using:
> > export MONO_DISABLE_SHM=1
>
> I do not understand what this means. Do you want me to add the
> previous export to the debian/rules file for gdcm ?
Yes, in the debian/rules file, as that will call the C# compiler at
some point during the build process.
>
>
> > One related note, I did a short check of the gdcm source packages
> > and
>
> Cool ! Thanks for taking the time !
>
> > noticed it doesn't handle "Mono architectures". Mono is not
> > available for all Debian architectures. It supports all except:
> > m68k, hppa and alpha. This means your Build-Depends line has to
> > cope with that, to only pull the mono deps in when it's a Mono
> > arch. At the same time the configure script/call has to optionally
> > skip the building of the Mono binding, else it will FTBFS on the
> > named unsupported archs.
>
> I am looking at:
>
> http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-packaging.html#s-build-deps
>
> Do you have a reference on how to do that ?
It's not trivial, the "make C# code optional build in configure" is the
simplest approach. The gmime2.4 source package does this for example.
>
> Thanks again !
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