On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:

peer-io.c: In function ‘tr_evbuffer_write’: peer-io.c:285:31: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[1]: *** [peer-io.o] Error 1

--- This one REALLY has me curious as to how it was build for the distribution, since I have been unable to build transmission from their source repo for some time due to something along the lines of (if not the exact same) error I'm getting from the 11.4 package.

I have a system that seems to be fully updated to 11.4, and installed the appropriate build-requires.

Yet another rpmbuild -bb fails with errors indicating it never should have been buildable to a binary in the first place.

So what's going on? ----

FWIW, I also tried using the "build" command to see if that worked any better...: expanding package dependencies... reqesting dir:///Share/suse/11.4/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/rpm-4.8.0-27.1.x86_64.rpm failed: 501 Protocol scheme 'dir' is not supported Warning: distribution not specified, assuming 'default' (see /usr/lib/build/configs). downloading zypp://Open_Suse_11.4_Update/rpm/x86_64/Mesa-7.10.2-7.3.1.x86_64.rpm ... reqesting dir:///Share/suse/11.4/update/rpm/x86_64/Mesa-7.10.2-7.3.1.x86_64.rpm failed: 501 Protocol scheme 'dir' is not supported

So how does one build binary RPM's from source rpm's or am I just getting 'lucky' in choosing broken SRPM's?

:-(

(and people want me to use the build-system to build updates for products...um...  a main reason for resisting that has been being able to make sure I wasn't building in a 'walled garden', that included things I didn't know about. In it's simplest form, this merely means the build environment seems to include things that aren't obvious to someone building the packages on a standard 11.4 system.... As such, it doesn't seem to be a "portable" build environment...

cd ~ #or wherever you want the source package mkdir obs; cd obs; #you are now in your new working dir osc co openSUSE:Factory transmission #now you have the source as OBS has it cd openSUSE\:Factory/transmission/ ls # verify you have the source

Linda, I suggest you get more familiar with osc. Especially if you are considering using OBS. So, have you tried building locally just like factory does? By that I mean: transmission-2.31.tar.bz2 transmission.changes transmission-qt.desktop transmission.spec

osc build transmission.spec # build it.

(I use Factory above. You might prefer openSUSE:11.4 The support packages pulled in to do the compile come from the repo you pull transmission from, so it should all work out.) Note that by default, the build_root is in /var/tmp and it can be a few GB. Edit .oscrc to point it somewhere else. I just did a test build like the above (from openSUSE:Factory) and it worked fine for me. === rpms I just built locally

ls /home/gaf/obs/osc_roots/build-root-standard-x86_64-openSUSE\:Factory/usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/

transmission-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm transmission-gtk-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm transmission-qt-debuginfo-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm transmission-debuginfo-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm transmission-gtk-debuginfo-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm transmission-debugsource-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm transmission-qt-2.31-1.x86_64.rpm === So it could be a bug in the "buildrequires" logic that is implicitly satisfied by the above, but not by your process. Personally, I'd rather use the osc approach regardless because it more closely maps to how that actual distro is built. And if you are doing this to see if OBS is the place for you, then even more reason to use osc. HTH Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org