Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Hutchings: > Depending on the architecture, this and several other files in /proc may > be required by the Boehm garbage collector which is part of gcj's > implementation of the Java virtual machine. The quoted message comes > from this: > > ptr_t GC_linux_stack_base(void) > { > /*

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 12:54 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume > > that /proc/self/stat exist

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume > that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? There are packages that require it. I

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Banck: > Are you sure gij-4.3 is not just dragged in via Recommends, i.e. the > buildd chroot is properly setup? AFAICT, you did not mention which > package failed above (if you can disclose it), so it's hard to > investigate further I guess. It's cacao-oj6 and openjdk-6, part of test

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:43:40AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume > that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? > > The following is from mundy.debian

Re: /proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Weimer, le Sat 13 Sep 2008 10:43:40 +0200, a écrit : > This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. > What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? >From a Debian GNU/Hurd point of view, it is well known that /proc is needed for quite a few packages (and that used

/proc and build environments

2008-09-13 Thread Florian Weimer
This is probably a FAQ, and I guess I knew the answer at one point. What are the requirements for /proc and buildds? Can packages assume that /proc/self/stat exist in a buildd environment? The following is from mundy.debian.org, from a testing-security build: | Setting up gij-4.3 (4.3.1-9) ... |