Re: creating relocatable packages with dpkg

2004-12-11 Thread Loïc Minier
No Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Dec 10, 2004: > My understanding is that the problem is that it's trying to chroot to > /opt/foo1, but there is no root filesystem there (for example, no > /bin/sh at /opt/foo1/bin/sh), so there's no way for it to do anything > other than simple copying of files.

Re: creating relocatable packages with dpkg

2004-12-11 Thread David Given
No Spam wrote: [...] I'm not sure that that's what's happening, but it makes sense. You can easily install a filesystem with "debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Debian system". That seems like such overkill. I'm trying to do something similar; I'm putting together an embedded system, and want to pop

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Justin Pryzby wrote: > How can I modify the path to the libraries? During compilation, the > build system has to see $buildpath/iraf/lib/libfoo.so.0, but once > installed, the executables must see > /usr/lib/iraf/iraf/lib/libfoo.so.0. There are a bunch of executables, > so I don't want to have t

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi Kevin, On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:12:44AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > Alternative solutions would be to put the shared libs in /usr/lib, or That's what I've done; I think that makes sense, because compiling a program with "XC" (the IRAF compiler frontend) will see

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 12/11/2004 10:21 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Oh, yeah, and upstream creates a libc.a which is in the search path .. > for now I'm just removing it so that gcc doesn't screw up (shared > libraries are renamed, but static onese are not). Oh. My. God. Can you hit them with the clue stick? Is it

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Justin Pryzby [Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:21:02 -0500]: > By the way, what is /usr/lib/tls/, and why do all of my programs link > to its libc.so? (TLS == Thread Local Storage.) I have minimal clue about all this stuff, but I believe the following statement is correct: the libc6 package ships in

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:47:01PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 12/11/2004 10:21 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > Oh, yeah, and upstream creates a libc.a which is in the search path .. > > for now I'm just removing it so that gcc doesn't screw up (shared > > libraries are renamed, but static

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:32:26AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Justin Pryzby [Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:21:02 -0500]: > > > By the way, what is /usr/lib/tls/, and why do all of my programs link > > to its libc.so? > > if you boot into a 2.4 kernel, you'll see that your programs no longer > link

Re: creating relocatable packages with dpkg

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:51:54AM +, David Given wrote: > No Spam wrote: > [...] > >>I'm not sure that that's what's happening, but it makes sense. You > >>can easily install a filesystem with "debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic > >>Debian system". > > > >That seems like such overkill. > > I'm

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