Re: unable to build gdb from source
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:46:29AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Can some one tell me what I am doing wrong here? I am unable to build gdb
> from source on a machine running sid. I did
>
> $apt-get source gdb
> $cd gdb-6.6.dfsg/
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
>
> The build log is attached in this email. What puzzles me is that, according
> to
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=gdb&ver=6.6.dfsg-1&arch=i386&stamp=1170205364&file=log
> it built just fine. However it does not build on my machine. This machine
> does not have pbuilder installed so can't check if things improve when I
> build with it. Any ideas on why this is happening? Should I file a bug?
You're apparently trying to build in "downloaded packages source/".
It contains a space which the make build system didn't handle. IMHO
it's a bug, but I suspect many package have similar problems. I
supose somebody wants to rebuild the archive and find out?
Justin
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