Am Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2013, 10:57:03 schrieb Ruediger Meier:
On Tuesday 15 October 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
Come on, building xz requires xz ?
I used to build xz on a bunch of old targets so that OTHER packages that required xz would find it, but now they all fail because the Base:build/xz I branched from changed to use xz-<version>.tar.xz as it's source file.
I maintain a project for many targets where xz and tar is only built if it's needed to let it work with xz compressed sources. You could aggregate the packages from there https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/home:rudi_m:bldchn
xz itself cannot sanely buildrequires xz!
You also need gcc to build gcc, or coreutils for coreutils. Of course in this case I also find it pity that xz sources were not fixed generally for all standard distros on OBS.
I think the difference here is that the very old gcc of the oldest distribution is still enough to start to bootstrap gcc. While xz just does not exist at all in the old distros. Yes, bootstraping is needed for many packages, but it is good when it can be avoided. -- Adrian Schroeter email: adrian@suse.de SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org