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

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Dear All,

I tried to install gentoo prefix an amd64 box running debian buster.

I am using gcc 8.

It failed as follows:

> wctype.h-t && \
mv wctype.h-t wctype.h
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT gl_avltree_oset.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/gl_avltree_oset.Tpo -c -o gl_avltree_oset.o gl_avltree_oset.c
gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c -o
c-ctype.o c-ctype.c
gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT c-stack.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-stack.Tpo -c -o
c-stack.o c-stack.c
mv -f .deps/c-ctype.Tpo .deps/c-ctype.Po
mv -f .deps/c-stack.Tpo .deps/c-stack.Po
gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT clean-temp.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/clean-temp.Tpo
-c -o clean-temp.o clean-temp.c
gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT execute.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/execute.Tpo -c -o
execute.o execute.c
In file included from clean-temp.h:22,
                 from clean-temp.c:23:
./stdio.h:456:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function);
did you mean 'fgets'?
 _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1279: clean-temp.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mv -f .deps/execute.Tpo .deps/execute.Po
mv -f .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Tpo .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Po
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1083: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1023: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15'
make: *** [Makefile:976: all] Error 2

I tried running
  bootstrap_stage1_log
but that failed :(  I have no clue, really.  Please find friendly folks
in #gentoo-prefix on irc.gentoo.org, gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org mailing list,
or file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org under Gentoo/Alt, Prefix Support.
Sorry that I have failed you master.  I shall now return to my humble cave.
You can find a log of what happened in /home/mikef/gentoo/stage1.log
mikef@fart:~$

I filed a bug report on gentoo bugzilla Bug 687286 and posted the problem here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1097582.html

Comments appreciated

Regards

Michael Fothergill

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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Hi,

Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?

Thanks,
Fabian

On 04-06-2019 10:47:15 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I tried to install gentoo prefix an amd64 box running debian buster.
> 
> I am using gcc 8.
> 
> It failed as follows:
> 
> > wctype.h-t && \
> mv wctype.h-t wctype.h
> make  all-am
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT gl_avltree_oset.o -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Tpo -c -o gl_avltree_oset.o gl_avltree_oset.c
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c -o
> c-ctype.o c-ctype.c
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT c-stack.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-stack.Tpo -c -o
> c-stack.o c-stack.c
> mv -f .deps/c-ctype.Tpo .deps/c-ctype.Po
> mv -f .deps/c-stack.Tpo .deps/c-stack.Po
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT clean-temp.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/clean-temp.Tpo
> -c -o clean-temp.o clean-temp.c
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT execute.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/execute.Tpo -c -o
> execute.o execute.c
> In file included from clean-temp.h:22,
>                  from clean-temp.c:23:
> ./stdio.h:456:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function);
> did you mean 'fgets'?
>  _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
>  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:1279: clean-temp.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> mv -f .deps/execute.Tpo .deps/execute.Po
> mv -f .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Tpo .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Po
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1083: all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1023: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15'
> make: *** [Makefile:976: all] Error 2
> 
> I tried running
>   bootstrap_stage1_log
> but that failed :(  I have no clue, really.  Please find friendly folks
> in #gentoo-prefix on irc.gentoo.org, gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org mailing list,
> or file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org under Gentoo/Alt, Prefix Support.
> Sorry that I have failed you master.  I shall now return to my humble cave.
> You can find a log of what happened in /home/mikef/gentoo/stage1.log
> mikef@fart:~$
> 
> I filed a bug report on gentoo bugzilla Bug 687286 and posted the problem here:
> 
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1097582.html
> 
> Comments appreciated
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael Fothergill
> 

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?

Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
by default in debian:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils

I will log in to the debian install and check.

Regards and thanks

MF

>
> Thanks,
> Fabian
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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Michael,

Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
bz2.

We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
didn't work.

Fabian


On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> 
> Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> by default in debian:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> 
> I will log in to the debian install and check.
> 
> Regards and thanks
> 
> MF
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fabian
> > --
> > Fabian Groffen
> > Gentoo on a different level
> 

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Many thanks again.

I checked and xz-utils is installed:

root@fart:/home/mikef# dpkg -s xz-utils | grep Status
Status: install ok installed
root@fart:/home/mikef#

I have pasted more of the output:

https://paste.debian.net/1085996/

I will make a second paste of the start of the output the terminal
buffer didn't catch and post it up as well shortly.

Regards

MF

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
> attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
> the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
> is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
> because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
> xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
> bz2.
>
> We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
> didn't work.
>
> Fabian
>
>
> On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> >
> > Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> > by default in debian:
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> >
> > I will log in to the debian install and check.
> >
> > Regards and thanks
> >
> > MF
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fabian
> > > --
> > > Fabian Groffen
> > > Gentoo on a different level
> >
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Many thanks again.

I have posted the output at start of the install run which mentions
this m4 item:

https://paste.debian.net/1085998/

If there is still a bit of output missing that you need please let me know.

There does not seem to be a deb package for wgetpaste.

Regards

MF

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
> attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
> the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
> is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
> because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
> xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
> bz2.
>
> We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
> didn't work.
>
> Fabian
>
>
> On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> >
> > Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> > by default in debian:
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> >
> > I will log in to the debian install and check.
> >
> > Regards and thanks
> >
> > MF
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fabian
> > > --
> > > Fabian Groffen
> > > Gentoo on a different level
> >
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

I have posted the output right after the last piece.....

It is seems to be installing an older version of m4 as you suggested
because it could not use the newer one because of a problem with a gnu
package of some sort:

https://paste.debian.net/1085999/

Comments appreciated.

Regards

MF

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
> attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
> the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
> is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
> because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
> xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
> bz2.
>
> We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
> didn't work.
>
> Fabian
>
>
> On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> >
> > Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> > by default in debian:
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> >
> > I will log in to the debian install and check.
> >
> > Regards and thanks
> >
> > MF
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fabian
> > > --
> > > Fabian Groffen
> > > Gentoo on a different level
> >
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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On 04-06-2019 12:01:42 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Many thanks again.
> 
> I have posted the output at start of the install run which mentions
> this m4 item:
> 
> https://paste.debian.net/1085998/

freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead':
freadahead.c:92:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to
your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your
system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
  #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the
definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to
bug-gnulib."
   ^~~~~

ahem....

I wonder what Debian $*$***$ up this time...

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

I found this discussion:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1099392/compilation-of-m4-1-4-10-to-1-4-18-fails-due-to-please-port-gnulib-freadahead-c

It suggests the following stepwise solution:

if you want to build m4 from source then start by getting its build
dependencies from the repository:

enable Source code in the Software & Updates (software-properties-gtk)

install needed build tools

sudo apt-get install build-essential

get necessary build dependencies for current m4 binary package

sudo apt-get build-dep m4

get source code of the current m4 binary package (with all needed
patches provided by Debian and/or Ubuntu):

apt-get source m4
cd m4-*

Would a local compilation of m4 this fashion on my debian install help here?

Regards

NF
then compile it as usual

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 12:14, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 04-06-2019 12:01:42 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Many thanks again.
> >
> > I have posted the output at start of the install run which mentions
> > this m4 item:
> >
> > https://paste.debian.net/1085998/
>
> freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead':
> freadahead.c:92:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to
> your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your
> system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>   #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the
> definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to
> bug-gnulib."
>    ^~~~~
>
> ahem....
>
> I wonder what Debian $*$***$ up this time...
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

It seems the bug has been reported before:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59562

Oh well.....

Regards

MF

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 12:14, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 04-06-2019 12:01:42 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Many thanks again.
> >
> > I have posted the output at start of the install run which mentions
> > this m4 item:
> >
> > https://paste.debian.net/1085998/
>
> freadahead.c: In function 'freadahead':
> freadahead.c:92:3: error: #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to
> your platform! Look at the definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your
> system, then report this to bug-gnulib."
>   #error "Please port gnulib freadahead.c to your platform! Look at the
> definition of fflush, fread, ungetc on your system, then report this to
> bug-gnulib."
>    ^~~~~
>
> ahem....
>
> I wonder what Debian $*$***$ up this time...
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

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

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

[Olivier Huber]

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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
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 <
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
>
>

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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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: 
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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

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

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

[Michael Fothergill]

The installation seems to be running normally.

A large number of packages have been installed including portage which
seems to be compiling gcc 9......

Regards

MF

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Dear All,

The installation is getting near completion.  Unfortunately portage
seems to be compiling gcc 9.1.0-r1 a second time for good
measure......

Regards  MF

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
> attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
> the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
> is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
> because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
> xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
> bz2.
>
> We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
> didn't work.
>
> Fabian
>
>
> On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> >
> > Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> > by default in debian:
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> >
> > I will log in to the debian install and check.
> >
> > Regards and thanks
> >
> > MF
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Fabian
> > > --
> > > Fabian Groffen
> > > Gentoo on a different level
> >
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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On 04-06-2019 17:19:21 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> The installation is getting near completion.  Unfortunately portage
> seems to be compiling gcc 9.1.0-r1 a second time for good
> measure......

This is expected behaviour.  After all packages are brought in, it
finishes with an emerge -e world to ensure everything is "clean", that
is, not pointing to, or using programs or libraries from outside the
prefix.

Fabian

> 
> Regards  MF
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
> > attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
> > the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
> > is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
> > because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
> > xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
> > bz2.
> >
> > We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
> > didn't work.
> >
> > Fabian
> >
> >
> > On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> > >
> > > Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> > > by default in debian:
> > >
> > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> > >
> > > I will log in to the debian install and check.
> > >
> > > Regards and thanks
> > >
> > > MF
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Fabian
> > > > --
> > > > Fabian Groffen
> > > > Gentoo on a different level
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Fabian Groffen
> > Gentoo on a different level
> 

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Dear All,

The installation has succeeded.

I did it in an attempt to try to solve the problems I was having here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1096872.html

Is there some documentation I can read on gentoo prefix?

Regards

MF

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Dear Folks,

Is this warning  a big concern?

WARNING: your shell initialisation (.cshrc, .bashrc, .profile)
*          seems to prepend to your PATH, this might kill your
*          Prefix:
*          /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
*          You better fix this, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

I ran the etc-update on the hosts file.

The system is up to date.  No packages needed to be removed by emerge
--depclean.

startprefix runs OK.

Can I compile a new kernel for the parent debian install in gentoo
prefix and use debian to do the make deb-pkg or make bindeb-pkg or
fakeroot commands if they don't work in gentoo prefix?

Cheers

MF



On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 18:24, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 04-06-2019 17:19:21 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The installation is getting near completion.  Unfortunately portage
> > seems to be compiling gcc 9.1.0-r1 a second time for good
> > measure......
>
> This is expected behaviour.  After all packages are brought in, it
> finishes with an emerge -e world to ensure everything is "clean", that
> is, not pointing to, or using programs or libraries from outside the
> prefix.
>
> Fabian
>
> >
> > Regards  MF
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > Just to elaborate a bit.  There is a newer version of m4, that is
> > > attempted first.  However, newer versions of GNU software now require
> > > the xz decompressor to unpack.  In your scenario, an old version of m4
> > > is being compiled.  One of the reasons for choosing an older version is
> > > because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of
> > > xz.  Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and
> > > bz2.
> > >
> > > We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions
> > > didn't work.
> > >
> > > Fabian
> > >
> > >
> > > On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system?
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks for the response.  I am not sure if xz utils is installed
> > > > by default in debian:
> > > >
> > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils
> > > >
> > > > I will log in to the debian install and check.
> > > >
> > > > Regards and thanks
> > > >
> > > > MF
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Fabian
> > > > > --
> > > > > Fabian Groffen
> > > > > Gentoo on a different level
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Fabian Groffen
> > > Gentoo on a different level
> >
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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On 05-06-2019 18:16:31 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 
> Is this warning  a big concern?

yes, you effectively disable your Prefix with this path

> WARNING: your shell initialisation (.cshrc, .bashrc, .profile)
> *          seems to prepend to your PATH, this might kill your
> *          Prefix:
> *          /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
> *          You better fix this, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
> 
> I ran the etc-update on the hosts file.
> 
> The system is up to date.  No packages needed to be removed by emerge
> --depclean.
> 
> startprefix runs OK.
> 
> Can I compile a new kernel for the parent debian install in gentoo
> prefix and use debian to do the make deb-pkg or make bindeb-pkg or
> fakeroot commands if they don't work in gentoo prefix?

I think this is pretty much challenging.  IIRC you mentioned something
before, but out of curiosity why would you want a Gentoo kernel for your
Debian system?

Fabian

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

Many thanks for your reply.

The reason for compiling a kernel in gentoo tailored for use in debian
is as follows.

A while ago when the first set of kernels were made with the patches
for the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities, I
installed the latest kernels with these fixes as soon as they were
released into my gentoo install.

Then I thought to do the same thing in debian.

But there was a problem.

Debian only put out new kernels from time to time and no spectre
enabled off the shelf kernel was available.

So that meant I would have to compile a custom kernel in debian as I
did in gentoo which would have the spectre fix in it.

This turned out not to be an easy task.

At the time you could only compile the spectre fix with gcc 8 and you
could only install it if you were running debian unstable (sid).

I ended up upgrading my debian stretch install to unstable and
installed gcc 8 with some effort.

I tried to configure and install a new kernel using the make kpkg
command in debian but I could not make it work.

It seemed to me that building kernels in gentoo was a lot easier than
in debian at the time.

Since then off the shelf kernels have been created in debian that
contain the meltdown and spectre fixes but I notice there seem to be
new vulnerability fixes
in the pipeline in upcoming kernel releases.

So I then began to wonder if I could make an extra kernel that would
be made to be used in debian at the same time as I would make the
gentoo one - both
kernels being made in gentoo.  The debian one would be ported to my
debian install.

I then posted this on to the gentoo kernel page on the forum site and
Neddy Seagoon the site administrator and Hu the moderator both helped
with some creative
suggestions see here:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1096872.html

Neddy Seagoon suggested (at least) two useful things:

1. make a new copy of the makefile for the current kernel and change
the EXTRAVERSION parameter from -gentoo to -debian:
 e.g.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
VERSION = 5
PATCHLEVEL = 1
SUBLEVEL = 1
EXTRAVERSION = -gentoo
NAME = Shy Crocodile

He then pointed out that the kernel make system has some useful targets in it:
...
Kernel packaging:
  rpm-pkg             - Build both source and binary RPM kernel packages
  binrpm-pkg          - Build only the binary kernel RPM package
  deb-pkg             - Build both source and binary deb kernel packages
  bindeb-pkg          - Build only the binary kernel deb package
...

2. He then said I would have to copy the kernel directory contents and
compile the new kernel in it etc.

We then had a discussion about the fact that copying the kernel
directory was kind of untidy etc.

Then Hu made a post saying there there were ways to build multiple
kernels from a single tree by setting certain environment variables
($KBUILD_OUTPUT, $INSTALL_PATH, $INSTALL_MOD_PATH) that would mean you
could avoid copying the kernel.

I found a script Hu had posted on this elsewhere on the gentoo forums:

#!/bin/bash

TDIR="$1"; shift
if [ -z "${TDIR}" ]; then
   TDIR="$(uname -r)"
   echo 'No release specified.  Defaulting to '"\"$TDIR\""'.'
fi

TKERN="${TDIR/*_}"
BDIR="$HOME"/kernel/
KSRC="${1:-/usr/src/linux-"${TKERN}"}"; shift

export KBUILD_OUTPUT="${BDIR}${TDIR}/"
export INSTALL_PATH="${BDIR}install/${TDIR}/boot/"
export INSTALL_MOD_PATH="${BDIR}install/${TDIR}/"

if [ ! -d "$KSRC" ]; then
   echo 'Directory '"$KSRC"' does not exist.' >&2
   exit 1
fi

for a in "$KBUILD_OUTPUT" "$INSTALL_PATH"; do
   if [ ! -d "$a" ]; then
      mkdir -p "$a" || exit $?
      echo "Created $a"
   fi
done

echo KBUILD_OUTPUT="${KBUILD_OUTPUT}"
echo INSTALL_PATH="${INSTALL_PATH}"
echo INSTALL_MOD_PATH="${INSTALL_MOD_PATH}"

cd "$KSRC"
exec /bin/bash

I had a go at running it.

If you look toward the end of the gentoo forums thread you will see
the problems i encountered trying to do this in practice.

I had problems making the make deb-pkg and/or make bindeb-pkg command
work in gentoo.

Then I had the idea of installing gentoo prefix in debian itself and
experimenting with the idea of getting the host debian install
to make the deb packages that produce the debian kernel image files
and doing the initramfs set up but still using the gentoo
prefix and portage to compile and configure the kernel itself ready
for debian to do the packaging that gentoo seemed to be poor at
doing in practice.

I also looked at the electron builder package a bit to see if it could
help here.

Comments appreciated.

Regards

MF

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

[Fabian Groffen]

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FWIW:

I fixed this problem in
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/commit/?id=65bb9581

Thanks,
Fabian

On 04-06-2019 10:47:15 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I tried to install gentoo prefix an amd64 box running debian buster.
> 
> I am using gcc 8.
> 
> It failed as follows:
> 
> > wctype.h-t && \
> mv wctype.h-t wctype.h
> make  all-am
> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT gl_avltree_oset.o -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Tpo -c -o gl_avltree_oset.o gl_avltree_oset.c
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c -o
> c-ctype.o c-ctype.c
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT c-stack.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-stack.Tpo -c -o
> c-stack.o c-stack.c
> mv -f .deps/c-ctype.Tpo .deps/c-ctype.Po
> mv -f .deps/c-stack.Tpo .deps/c-stack.Po
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT clean-temp.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/clean-temp.Tpo
> -c -o clean-temp.o clean-temp.c
> gcc  -I.     -g -O2 -MT execute.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/execute.Tpo -c -o
> execute.o execute.c
> In file included from clean-temp.h:22,
>                  from clean-temp.c:23:
> ./stdio.h:456:1: error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function);
> did you mean 'fgets'?
>  _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");
>  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:1279: clean-temp.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> mv -f .deps/execute.Tpo .deps/execute.Po
> mv -f .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Tpo .deps/gl_avltree_oset.Po
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:1083: all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15/lib'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1023: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/tmp/m4-1.4.15/m4-1.4.15'
> make: *** [Makefile:976: all] Error 2
> 
> I tried running
>   bootstrap_stage1_log
> but that failed :(  I have no clue, really.  Please find friendly folks
> in #gentoo-prefix on irc.gentoo.org, gentoo-alt@lists.gentoo.org mailing list,
> or file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org under Gentoo/Alt, Prefix Support.
> Sorry that I have failed you master.  I shall now return to my humble cave.
> You can find a log of what happened in /home/mikef/gentoo/stage1.log
> mikef@fart:~$
> 
> I filed a bug report on gentoo bugzilla Bug 687286 and posted the problem here:
> 
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1097582.html
> 
> Comments appreciated
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael Fothergill
> 

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Gentoo on a different level

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

[Michael Fothergill]

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The founder of Bedrock linux says that running gentoo and debian together
in it allows the dpkg-buildpackage of debian to be used by gentoo.......

This was the main problem I had with the out of tree kernels I tried making
in gentoo for the debian install.

See here:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bedrock-linux-118/using-bedrock-linux-with-gentoo-and-debian-4175656498/

I will give it a try on another machine I have that needs an extra part in
a while and see if it really works.

Linus Torvalds says that more weird hardware kernel fixes are coming our
way in the near future:

https://www.fudzilla.com/news/48965-torvalds-warns-hardware-management-is-about-to-get-tricky

Regards

MF


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