Re: emchain libc mismatch for powerpc

[Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com>]

I found the --force flag for emchain, and used that to see how far I 
could get.

It gets as far as trying to build gcc-4.3 but has the following unmet 
dependencies: libc6-dev-powerpc-cross (>=2.5), 
libc6-dev-ppc64-powerpc-cross (>=2.5), autmake1.9, libtool, autogen, 
gawk, binutils-powerpc-linux-gnu (>=2.17cvs20070426), bison (>=1:2.3), 
flex, realpath (>=1.9.12).

The error messages says that the dependencies can be overridden with -d 
(dpkg-buildpackage).
Can I do that via emchain somehow ??

Thanks, Brendan.


Brendan Simon wrote:
>    emchain: Error.  Mismatch in source versions
>    powerpc does not appear to have build 2.7-6 of libc successfully.
>    ...
>    Only version 2.7-9 is available on powerpc and emchain is unable to
>    proceed.
>
> Is there a way to tell emchain to use libc6 2.7-9, and ignore libc6 
> 2.7-6 ???
>
> Is this error because I am running a testing distribution, but trying 
> to build emdebian cross tools from unstable sources ??
>
> If so, does this mean that the only way to build emdebian cross tools 
> is to run an unstable distribution?
>
> I don't really want to do that.  I'm happy to fight with testing, but 
> not unstable.  I'm having enough problems with X on testing as it is.
>
> NOTE: I'm trying to build the powerpc cross tools, to help debug and 
> fix them so we can get them back into emdebian :)
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan.