But I am not used compiling stuff that would
>> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark.
>> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it
>> from scratch. The software is called ASCEND and is a chemical
>> engineering modelling progam. It has been released under the GPL I
>> think. The authors made some rpms for it and say that you could use
>> something called alien to convert the rpms into deb files.
>
>> But I am interested if I can to make deb package files for it from
>> scratch. If it worked I would be willing to offer them to be included
Ah, now I understand.
But there is already a scons package in amd64. Is it not built with
the options you want?
I think it is probably OK, but I may need to change some of the options. I
tried compiling ascend with scons and got the following error message:
http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/scon
/usr/bin/ld: lsod/lsode.os: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol'
can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
lsod/lsode.os: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [libascend.so] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
localhost:/home/mikef/ascend#
localhost:/home/mikef/ascend#
As I mentioned above this code is usually compiled for 32 bit i386 use. If
I can fix this then I will have a version that runs in 64 bit mode. Next
stop a proper ab initio 64 bit deb package not an alien rpm to deb fix, Then
a proper i386 deb package as well, a sponsor if that makes sense and I can
find one and a new package for Debian if it wants it.
The compiler suggests that I need to recompile with the -fPIC option. I am
having to run scons as root because of a permission problem I get as a user:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ascend$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: *** Error writing options to file: options.cache
[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'options.cache'
File "SConstruct", line 624, in ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ascend$
I will study some scons documentation and see if I can figure out how to
turn on the -fPIC option.
Suggestions welcome.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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