Re: compiling clamav with pbuilder

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:00:33AM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:52:44 +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > Wehn compiling clamav in a woody chroot with pbuilder, I get
> > the following error:
> 
> I can't reproduce that here (freshly generated woody chroot for pbuilder;
> clamav 0.24-1).

Strange. This is a freshly installed and updated woody chroot, too.

That is the same version of clamav I compiled too.

> > (cd docs && ps2pdf clamdeb.ps clamdeb.pdf)   
> > **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
> > make: *** [build-stamp] Error 255
> > pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
> 
> ps2pdf uses gs to do the real work.

So the error is coming from gs?

> > Why does ps2pdf need to open a device, and what device is it trying to
> > open?
> 
> You don't happen to have the GS_DEVICE environment variable set?

I don't have convenient access to the system right now, but I have
never set that environment variable myself, and I really doubt that
anything else would have set it with me knowing.

So I wonder what is different about my system that means it doesn't work
here, but it works everywhere else?

Could it be related to devfs or something? (on the host system, I have
devfs compiled into the kernel, but disabled on boot.)

Also I have configured pbuilder to use DEVPTS. I can't think why this
would matter, but just in case...
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>