Re: has anyone gotten nosh to build on Void Linux?

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>]

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Chris Brannon:

> When I run package/compile from the root of the unpacked source tree, 
> I get:
>
>> redo: ERROR: all: Cannot find .do file to use.
>
You need to make your operating system POSIX-conformant.  I make fairly 
liberal use of some standard utilities in the build process including 
|pax 
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html>|, 
|uname 
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/uname.html>|, 
|mv 
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/mv.html>|, 
and |expr 
<http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/expr.html>| 
amongst others.  A POSIX-conformant operating system is a fairly minimal 
expectation for a build environment.  (It is not as though the build 
process is requiring, for example, the Bourne Again shell and its 
non-POSIX extensions for building from source on host operating systems; 
as some softwares do.) The source package page 
<jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/source-package.html> notes the 
*non*-standard tools that are needed.

This information is pre-encoded in the |package/debian/control| file 
that I supply for Debian Linux, to be automatically checked by 
|dpkg-buildpackage|.  (There's no equivalent list that I supply for the 
BSDs; but it is also the case that the BSDs provide nearly all of this 
stuff, including the non-POSIX |install| tool, out of the box, in 
base.)  If you are building on a different Linux operating system, that 
is a good hint, with two caveats: Your Linux operating system won't 
necessarily package things up the same way as Debian or have the same 
package dependency tree, and Debian mandates a group of tools as 
standard without their needing to be mentioned in a 
|package/debian/control| file 
<https://debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#package-relationships>. 
Furthermore: Thomas Caravia has already worked out the build 
requirements for Arch Linux in terms of pre-requisite Arch packages, and 
the doco for Archnosh is a further source of clues for building on other 
Linux operating systems.