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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	 libc-alpha@sourceware.org <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ci: Check for necessary Debian packages when running build-many-glibcs.py
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 18:17:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl2uh8i1.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211108165255.15600-1-lukma@denx.de> (Lukasz Majewski's message of "Mon, 8 Nov 2021 17:52:55 +0100")

* Lukasz Majewski:

> The build-many-glibc.py can be run on a 'vanila' Debian distribution
> (as for example in docker container), which don't have by default
> installed some packages (like flex).
>
> This causes build break at late stage of the full build;
> ../src/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py . checkout --replace-sources &&
> ../src/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py . host-libraries &&
> ../src/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py . compilers &&
> ../src/scripts/build-many-glibcs.py . glibcs
>
> To avoid such situation, this check has been added to inform user
> early of required (and missing) Debian packages.
>
> The same approach (with using the 'distro' python module) can be
> applied to Fedora or Suse.

I would recommend searching for required tools on PATH, using
shutil.which.  This should work on any distribution.  If I recall
correctly, the non-obvious tools are:

bison
flex
git
makeinfo
patch
tar

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-08 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-08 16:52 Lukasz Majewski
2021-11-08 16:59 ` Joseph Myers
2021-11-08 17:06   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-08 17:15     ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-08 19:44     ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-11-08 20:27       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-09 13:39         ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-11-09 13:43           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-09 15:32             ` Lukasz Majewski
2023-05-26 22:12               ` DJ Delorie
2023-05-26 22:34                 ` Joseph Myers
2023-05-31 19:54                   ` DJ Delorie
2023-05-31 20:18                   ` DJ Delorie
2023-06-05 20:42                 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-06-05 21:12                   ` DJ Delorie
2023-09-21 21:44                   ` DJ Delorie
2023-10-09 18:23                     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-10-09 21:53                       ` DJ Delorie
2021-11-08 18:15   ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-11-08 18:31     ` Joseph Myers
2021-11-08 19:51       ` Lukasz Majewski
2021-11-08 21:25         ` Joseph Myers
2021-11-08 17:17 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-11-08 18:52   ` Joseph Myers
2021-11-08 19:03     ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-08 18:56   ` Adhemerval Zanella

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