Re: Compiling on hppa

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Stijn de Bekker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa
> architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045):
> 
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=htdig&ver=3.1.5-3&arch=hppa&stamp=100
> 2598209&file=log&as=raw
> 
> 
> My question is pretty simple; how can I create a chroot environment on
> sarti (the hppa machine) to fix this? I cannot compile regularly,
> because db2-dev is not installed.

The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0.
Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 :

 CC=gcc-3.0 CXX=g++-3.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr

Do that on your regular machine.  No chroot needed.

Peter