[asterisk-dev] Still running into build issues w/ trunk, bug 17720

[Philip Prindeville]

  On 7/29/10 12:41 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2010 14:14:37 Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> I want my development environment itself to be stable and robust and as
>> bugfree as possible, but I don't mind developing software that uses
>> bleeding edge libraries.
>>
>> They are two entirely different things.
> As we've said before, set your PATH variable correctly.  This is not rocket
> science.  Do I have to login and fix your system AGAIN, because you're
> completely helpless?  I really think by this time you would have hired someone
> to do this for you, because it's clear that you cannot.
>

The nature of the cross-build installation invalidates this assumption, which you'd know if you had taken up my offer months ago to integrate astlinux builds into bamboo, but you're apparently too smug and self-assured to presume you might learn anything from that process.

(And yes, I can be snide too.  Woohoo!  What fun. Do you really want to keep this up?)

The cross-build will install into $BUILD_DIR/root/usr/bin/pg-config, and when I run pg-config (which is what will happen if I do as you suggest), it will give me WRONG RESULTS because they will be missing the $BUILD_DIR/root prefix which they are relativized to.

In other words, the pg-config will assume that $BUILD_DIR/root will be the root mount-point, and will give paths relative to that.

If it tells me /usr/lib/libsql.so for instance, that would be the RUN-TIME path on the cross-built machine.

That is NOT the $BUILD_DIR/root/usr/lib/libsql.so path that I need at BUILD-TIME.

What you're suggesting would only work in a chroot'd environment (which is what "mock" does, but we're not using mock).