[maemo-developers] More autobuilder problems (armel only)

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Sunday 29 June 2008 15:00:09 Andrew Flegg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The armel build of vim has failed a number of times now. The x86 one
> has built perfectly. The key part of the log is:
>...
> checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run
> C compiled programs.
> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> See `config.log' for more details.

I have seen this sometimes, although not in the autobuilder (yet!).  There 
seem to be scratchbox problems, in some configurations, on some systems, 
which sometimes make it unable to run some armel programs (i.e. I don't know 
which circumstances cause them!).  You really need to see the config.log 
command to see what failed.

How about hacking the debian/rules so that errors are ignored on the configure 
command and it is immediately followed by 'cat config.log'?

Graham