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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] gawk failing prefix-launcher-1.2 on AIX
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:35:43
Message-Id: 20080603073535.GH1163@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] gawk failing prefix-launcher-1.2 on AIX by Jeremy Olexa
1 On 02-06-2008 15:52:42 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Greg <trigggl@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > >> Have you looked at this:
4 > >> http://prefix-launcher.wiki.sourceforge.net/howto+install+prefix+launcher
5 > >>
6 > >> Looks related to your error.
7 > >>
8 > >
9 > > It does look like this is what I need. Starting over. Will keep you
10 > > posted.
11 >
12 > Bingo. I bugged haubi enough that 'we' figured it out (mainly him) and
13 > he put it on the sf site ;-)
14
15 Maybe we should create a page "bootstrap-prefix-launcher.xml" or
16 something that actually gives a slight introduction and some hints next
17 to the pointer to previously mentioned sf url on our Gentoo webspace...
18
19 > > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
20 > > /usr/local/src/prefix-launcher-1.2/buildroot/tar/tar-1.15.1/configure.rej
21 >
22 > Don't get overly concerned about this. Do get concerned if a package
23 > doesn't compile. ;-) I'm not sure if it is by design or what but I
24 > have seen these errors as well and everything works in the end.
25 > Remember that prefix-launcher is just a kickstart to bootstrap the
26 > basic utils with patches that are needed for the 'weird' OS's (like
27 > AIX). prefix-launcher is akin to the bootstrap guide all rolled up
28 > into a script. It would be difficult to use the bootstrap guide
29 > produced by grobian on AIX because apps on AIX need many patches to
30 > get working which would involve alot of manual work. Not fun.
31
32 Yeah, that's the main problem I guess. Though I'm not sure if
33 prefix-launcher in its current incarnation copes with the rsync tree
34 (and no subversion), and the changed instructions.
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38 Fabian Groffen
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