LTIB install failure using Debian/Ubuntu Edgy Eft

[iafg]

I'm still looking into this problem, but thought I'd report it in case someone can assist, or maybe it can help someone else in the future:

Refernce point
-New Ubuntu Edgy Eft install
-Installed build-essentials package
-Installed anything that related to rpm using Synaptic (apt-get)
-Tried both the rpm and CVS of LTIB

When I first run ./ltib to do the initial install I get the following:

Processing platform: host support
===================================
(see logfile: /home/test/dvl/ltib/host_config.log)
using

Processing: rpm-fs
====================
symlink /tmp/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz, /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz: No such file or directory

Started: Wed Nov 22 11:48:32 2006
Ended: Wed Nov 22 11:48:32 2006
Elapsed: 0 seconds

Build Failed


The file /tmp/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz exists, but /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz doesn't.
I'll continue trying a few things...

---ok, look at this...

test@iain-laptop:~/dvl/ltib$ ls -l /tmp/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 iain iain 5886675 2006-01-26 11:09 /tmp/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

test@iain-laptop:~/dvl/ltib$ ls /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
ls: /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz: No such file or directory

test@iain-laptop:~/dvl/ltib$ cp /tmp/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz': No such file or directory

test@iain-laptop:~/dvl/ltib$ mkdir /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES

test@iain-laptop:~/dvl/ltib$ cp /tmp/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz

----
So the "SOURCES" directory didn't appear to exist, although there is a directory with "{..}" in it. See Below...

iain@iain-laptop:~/dvl/uClinux-2.0.x/mm$ ls -l /tmp/rpm-test/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 test test 4096 2006-11-22 12:08 {BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
drwxr-xr-x 2 test test 4096 2006-11-22 11:12 rootfs
drwxr-xr-x 2 test test 4096 2006-11-22 11:12 rpmdb
drwxr-xr-x 2 test test 4096 2006-11-22 12:13 SOURCES

iain@iain-laptop:~/dvl/uClinux-2.0.x/mm$ ls -l /tmp/rpm-test/SPECS
ls: /tmp/rpm-test/SPECS: No such file or directory

---
But as you can see, I can't browse to the SPECS directory.
I'm not familiar with this {} naming convention...which I'm assuming is supposed to be a "set" of directories? and then again maybe this doesn't really exist, and it's just an error in ltib or a script?

(FYI - After manually adding the /tmp/rpm-test/SOURCES directory, the ltib install went past that point and failed again when referring to the /tmprpm-test/BUILD directory.
I'm just going to manually create these directories and go from there...)

[dg1sek]

I have similar problems. LTIB build process fails under the latest UBUNTU version installed on a virgin machine, after having installed lots of missing packages manually, I am stuck with the rpm-fs and texinfo packages that are not compiled.

The configuration files, make process etc. are very opaque to me, so I am stuck. 

Is there a way to get a precompiled LTIB for Ubuntu somewhere?

[cristians]

Hi,

One of the reasons that ltib fails to install on Ubuntu is the rpm package. Ubuntu has a patched version of rpm with a different behavior than what you get in Fedora. Mainly it will refuse to install any package unless you give it "--force-debian" flag. Even then, you might get into other problems.

On a clean installation, the error message is:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/freescale': Permission denied

However, before that is another message that hints to the problem:

rpm: please use alien to install rpm packages on Debian, if you are really sure use --force-debian switch. See README.Debian for more details.

The solution is to remove Ubuntu's rpm package together with rpm-dev and install it from source. Follow instructions from the rpm INSTALL file and then run:

$ ./ltib

as instructed in the ltib documentation

For example:

$ ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/nspr -I/usr/include/nss" --with-external-db --without-lua

$ make

$ make install

$ ldconfig       #to update the include paths

rpm will be installed in /usr/local/bin so you must update also the sudoers file.

Best regards

[xulioc]

Thank you very much for the hint!

Regards,

Xulio.

[cristians]

There is one more thing to do, as noted above bytachikoma:

Replace sh with bash. Ubuntu uses for some time dash as the default shell and it doesn't work with ltib.

Just do:

$ sudo ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh

and everything should be OK.

If you still have compilation problems, remove everything installed by ltib and start over.

Best regards

[iafg]

Ok - Well I guess it's the same problem as before.
For some reason the items in curly braces {} aren't expanding...
This is the output of the end of build_info.

---------

make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/freescale/ltib/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/texinfo-4.8'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/freescale/ltib/usr/src/rpm/BUILD/texinfo-4.8'
+ mkdir -p /home/iain/dvl/ltib/tmp/texinfo//opt/freescale/rootfs/i686//opt/freescale/ltib/sbin
+ mv /home/iain/dvl/ltib/tmp/texinfo//opt/freescale/rootfs/i686/{/opt/freescale/ltib/usr/bin,/opt/freescale/l
tib/sbin}/install-info
mv: missing destination file operand after `/home/iain/dvl/ltib/tmp/texinfo//opt/freescale/rootfs/i686/{/opt/
freescale/ltib/usr/bin,/opt/freescale/ltib/sbin}/install-info'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
error: Bad exit status from /home/iain/dvl/ltib/tmp/rpm-tmp.5054 (%install)


RPM build errors:
created %_tmppath directory /home/iain/dvl/ltib/tmp
Bad exit status from /home/iain/dvl/ltib/tmp/rpm-tmp.5054 (%install)
Failed building texinfo
Died at ./ltib line 1308.

Started: Thu Nov 23 19:08:50 2006
Ended: Thu Nov 23 19:10:00 2006
Elapsed: 70 seconds

[tachikoma]

Just remove /bin/sh.

and ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

It should be ok.

[soulbuzz]

I followed the suggested path of removing /bin/sh and creating a symlink
then installing gawk
I get this error after a while, even though libc.so.6 exists in /lib

but /opt/freescale/ltib does not exists

Patch #1 (rpm-4.0.4-python-configure.patch):
+ patch -p1 -s
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /tmp/rpm-tmp.24648
+ umask 022
+ cd /tmp/rpm-soulbuzz/BUILD
+ cd rpm-4.0.4
++ uname -m
+ '[' i686 '!=' x86_64 ']'
+ export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
+ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
++ echo /opt/freescale/ltib/usr
++ sed -e 's,/usr$,,'
sed: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
+ var=/var
error: Bad exit status from /tmp/rpm-tmp.24648 (%build)

[xulioc]

Commenting

#if [ "`uname -m`" != "x86_64" ]
#then
#    export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
#fi

in  dist/lfs-5.1/rpm/rpm-fs.spec

worked for me using ubuntu 9.04

Good luck!

[iafg]

Ltib eventually fails again at a similar command.
At the function f_buildrpms().
There's not much more description than that..

I thought it might have been awk.
The awk that's installed by default with ubuntu is mawk.
I installed gawk using apt-get, but no difference....