[arch-dev-public] i686 pkg built in chroot on x86_64 doesn't work

[Paul Mattal]

On 03/08/2010 07:16 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 09/03/10 08:38, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote:
>> On 03/08/10 at 05:20pm, Paul Mattal wrote:
>>> On 03/07/2010 02:33 PM, Paul Mattal wrote:
>>>> On 02/25/2010 11:49 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
>>>>> <ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
>>>>>> I've always thought the method of modifying your local mirrorlist,
>>>>>> running mkarchroot, then reverting the changes to be more tedious
>>>>>> than
>>>>>> necessary for creation of i686 chroots on x86_64. My recent work with
>>>>>> setting up a dedicated build server gave me plenty of time and an
>>>>>> excuse to actually do something about it. As such, I've put
>>>>>> together a
>>>>>> little patch that allows specification of creation of an i686 chroot
>>>>>> at runtime. When set, this flag will automatically modify your local
>>>>>> mirrorlist, create the requested i686 chroot, then revert the changes
>>>>>> to the mirrorlist file. I don't know if others would find this useful
>>>>>> or not, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to post it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, I *thought* I added a flag to point to an alternate pacman
>>>>> config when building the chroot, to simplify this. So it'd be as
>>>>> simple as:
>>>>>
>>>>> sed s/x86_64/i686/< /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist>
>>>>> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-i686
>>>>> sed s/mirrorlist/mirrorlist-i686/< /etc/pacman.conf>
>>>>> /etc/pacman-i686.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> mkarchroot -C /etc/pacman-i686.conf ...yada yada...
>>>>
>>>> Having some uniform turnkey script to build an i686 chroot on an x86_64
>>>> box as part of devtools would be useful.
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed today that in setting up my chroots, I had replaced my
>>>> x86_64 in makepkg.conf with i686, but not replaced the x86-64 which
>>>> occur in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. If others have done similar things, it
>>>> might result in buggy or suboptimal packages.
>>>>
>>>> It would at least be nice of someone who knows a lot about building in
>>>> chroots describes in detail what must be done for i686 chroots in
>>>> x86_64
>>>> in the wiki page, just in case there are important details I or others
>>>> have missed.
>>>
>>> So here's one for the chroot gurus.
>>>
>>> It appears that even with all my settings fixed, tomcat doesn't work
>>> when built in my i686 chroot on x86_64:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18604
>>>
>>> Building on an actual i686 box, even in a chroot, works.
>>>
>>> Can anyone guess why this might be? Are there some guidelines
>>> someone can give for evaluating whether or not it's safe to build a
>>> package under an i686 chroot on an x86_64 box?
>>>
>>> It seems there's an increased risk we're putting out broken packages
>>> when we build i686 packages in a chroot on an x86_64 box.
>>>
>>> - P
>> I've seen a few (rare) cases where a package built for i686 on an x86_64
>> machine _must_ be run with linux32, just using a 32bit chroot doesn't
>> cut it. This could be one of those cases. On a side note, perhaps I
>> should
>> add a flag on pkgbuild.com to enable this just for those off-the-wall
>> cases...
>
> I'd say to always use linux32... You can get some very strange configure
> errors without it. I have "makechrootpkg64" as an alias to use "linux64
> makechrootpkg" on my system.

I've added linux32 to my build scripts on my x86_64 box, since this 
seems like a good idea in general; is there any reason *not* to run 
makechrootpkg for an i686 chroot on an x86_64 box with linux32 all the 
time? I could try to tool up a patch to makechrootpkg to automatically 
detect/do that.

However, adding it doesn't solve the tomcat building problem; same 
result. This must be some other issue.

- P