Re: [gentoo-alt] problem installing gentoo prefix on debian buster

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com>]

Many thanks to Fabian and Olivier.

I have installed m4 in debian:
root@fart:/home/mikef# apt-get install m4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  m4-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  m4
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 203 kB of archives.
After this operation, 361 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ukdebian.mirror.anlx.net/debian buster/main amd64 m4
amd64 1.4.18-2 [203 kB]
Fetched 203 kB in 0s (489 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package m4.
(Reading database ... 188609 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/m4_1.4.18-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking m4 (1.4.18-2) ...
Setting up m4 (1.4.18-2) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
root@fart:/home/mikef#

I will try running the gentoo prefix install and see how I get on....

Regards

MF

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 12:54, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> I agree, install m4 in your Debian box, and it should skip it:
>
>     [[ $(m4 --version 2>&1) == *GNU*1.4.1?* ]] || (bootstrap_m4) || return 1
>
> Fabian
>
> On 04-06-2019 13:46:39 +0200, Olivier Huber wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > What does ``m4 --version'' return on your debian install?
> >
> > I'm no dev, however, if you have a valid m4 install, you shouldn't need to have
> > m4 bootstrapped.
> >
> > If m4 is not installed, you may want to do so (as well as bison, patch, ...).
> >
> > Otherwise, you could apply some patch to m4 during the bootstrap process.
> >
> > For instance, this bug has been fixed in Gentoo with this patch
> >
> > [1]https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-devel/m4/files/m4-1.4.18-glibc228.patch
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > --
> >
> > Olivier Huber
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 1:35 PM Michael Fothergill
> > <[2]michael.fothergill@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a separate gentoo installation on this machine.
> >
> > > Could I compile m4 on it and port it to the debian install and run it
> > > there in some way?
> >
> > > Regards
> >
> > > MF
> >
> >
> >
> >  References:
> >    1. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-devel/m4/files/m4-1.4.18-glibc228.patch
> >    2. mailto:michael.fothergill@gmail.com
> >
> > read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8:
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level