Re: [9fans] plan9port build failure on Linux (debian)

[David Morris <lists@morris-clan.net>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:23:06PM +0800, Hongzheng Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just cvsed and rebuilt the whole system.  No error
> occurs.  And my system is Debian sid.  So, I think the
> problem you encountered might due to some missing or
> mismatched packages on your debian box. Perhaps, the
> install.log in /usr/local/plan9/ would be helpful to
> discover what's wrong during installation.

Well, one step forward, one step back....

install.log was no help, the message I quoted was everything
relevant.

I took a stab at running gdb through yacc, but the compiler
optimized the code to the point finding the problem was
nearly impossible.....best I can say is its somewhere in the
dofmt() function (lib9/fmt/dofmt.c) or something it calls.

So I pulled out my VERY slow laptop and spent a few hours
letting it compile plan9port.

This time the build worked, so looks like some lenny/sid
packages don't work well together.  Hmm, or another
possibility occurs to me.  I use the AMD64 kernel
(2.6.22-3-amd64) on my desktop, but i686 on the laptop
(2.6.22-3-i686).  Any chance that could cause a problem?

I tried copying the "pure lenny" install to the main system
file structure, but that clearly does not work because wmii
(the application I need plan9port for) does not run.

So, any ideas on how to fix the build process?  The problem
stems from yacc.c at line #2173 in the sprint() function.
Could I replace that with the standard library sprintf()
function as a stop-gap measure?

--David