[Ltib] Re: Attempting to port netcat 1.84 to PPC

[John Weber]

Hi there -

OK - I've figured out from looking at the email archives that having
"Requires" and "BuildRequires" in a package meant to be built by LTIB
is not a good idea.  So, I've commented these out and the prep step
works fine.  I now have patched source for nc.

However, the next issue is that nc really does depend on glib2.  I've
prepped the source for glib2 into rpm/BUILD/glib-2.14.3.

So, what I get from ./ltib -m scbuild -p nc.spec is the following:

rpmbuild --dbpath /mnt/FREESCALE/LTIB/ltib-mpc837xerdb-20080409/rpmdb
--target ppc --define '_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0' --define
'_target_cpu ppc' --define '__strip strip' --define '_topdir
/mnt/FREESCALE/LTIB/ltib-mpc837xerdb-20080409/rpm' --define '_prefix
/usr' --define '_tmppath
/mnt/FREESCALE/LTIB/ltib-mpc837xerdb-20080409/tmp' --define '_mandir
/usr/share/man' --define '_sysconfdir /etc' --define '_localstatedir
/var' -bc --short-circuit
/mnt/FREESCALE/LTIB/ltib-mpc837xerdb-20080409/dist/lfs-5.1/nc/nc.spec
Building target platforms: ppc
Building for target ppc
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e
/mnt/FREESCALE/LTIB/ltib-mpc837xerdb-20080409/tmp/rpm-tmp.88506
+ umask 022
+ cd /mnt/FREESCALE/LTIB/ltib-mpc837xerdb-20080409/rpm/BUILD
+ cd nc
++ pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0
Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'glib-2.0' found
...

I've confirmed that a glib-2.0.pc exists in the directory rpm/BUILD/glib-2.14.3/

I've tried creating an environment variable called PKG_CONFIG_PATH
with the path to this file and the LTIB builder doesn't seem to see
it.

How can I make pkg-config (verified installed on my Centos5 based
machine) work with LTIB?  Saw some threads on a pkg-config patch on
this list, but all referenced a file in
/opt/freescale/usr/bin/pkg-config.  This doesn't get installed with
the default ISO download of the MPC837x BSP from Freescale.  The only
directory in that is /opt/freescale/usr/local - that's it.

I've verified that the version of LTIB, as reported in the ./ltib
--version is 7.4.1.

Thanks,
John

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:01 PM, John Weber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Has anyone attempted to port nc (netcat) to PPC?  Not the GNU netcat,
> but the OpenBSD netcat.
>
> Downloaded the SRPM and installed it with rpm -i in order to get at
> the spec and source files.
>
> The issue is that the spec file has a dependency on a couple of things
> - pkg-config and glibc-2.0.
>
> Here is a snippet of the spec file:
>
> Version: 1.84
> Release: 10%{?dist}
> URL:     http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/
> Source0: nc-%{version}.tar.bz2
> Patch0: nc-1.84-glib.patch
> Patch1: nc-1.78-pollhup.patch
> Patch2: nc-1.82-reuseaddr.patch
> Patch3: nc-gcc_signess.patch
> Patch4: nc-1.84-connect_with_timeout.patch
> Patch5: nc-1.84-udp_stop.patch
> Patch6: nc-1.84-udp_port_scan.patch
> Patch7: nc-1.84-crlf.patch
> Patch8: nc-1.84-verb.patch
> License: GPL
> Group: Applications/Internet
> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
> BuildRequires: pkgconfig, glib2-devel
> Requires: glib2
>
> I know that I can add the glib2 package, so run time support shouldn't
> be a problem.  How do I get around the other dependencies, though?
>
> John
>