Problems with creating new packages via makepkg

tomekdd · 06-13-2009, 01:03 PM

I've installed Slackware64 current recently and I am not able to resolve problem with making new packages via makepkg.

Lets suppose I've installed some lib in /tmp/some_lib.
Now, from /some_lib directory I type

Code:

makekpg ../some_lib.tgz

and I get an error : "gzip compression utility not found in $PATH".

Any ideas how to fix it? I've checked /etc/profile and global paths seems to be set correctly and of course gzip package is installed.

Thanks in advance.

Alien Bob · 06-13-2009, 02:17 PM

You have to specify an absolute path to the name of the package you want to create.

Code:

../some_lib.tgz

This is not OK and can lead to all kind of mysterious error messages. This is an example of a correct name for a package:

Code:

/home/alien/some_lib-1.2.3.4-i486-1.tgz

Eric

tomekdd · 06-13-2009, 03:16 PM

In this case there is no difference. I still get the same error message.
I planned to upgrade to the latest build but I've looked through the slack ChangeLog and there have not been any important changes which may refer to my problem applied. So probably problem has no connection with my build.

XGizzmo · 06-13-2009, 04:39 PM

Looks like you need to install gzip.

tomekdd · 06-14-2009, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XGizzmo

Looks like you need to install gzip.

Look what I've written in my first message.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomekdd

I've checked /etc/profile and global paths seems to be set correctly and of course gzip package is installed.

grissiom · 06-14-2009, 03:38 AM

Please post the output of `gzip --version` and `echo $PATH` in root account.

tomekdd · 06-14-2009, 04:43 AM

gzip -V:

Code:

gzip 1.3.12
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1993 Jean-loup Gailly.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

and result of `echo $PATH`

Code:

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

grissiom · 06-14-2009, 05:07 AM

It's weird... I think it's these lines that echo the error message(in /sbin/makepkg):

Code:

  163 # Make sure external compression utility is available:
  164 case $EXTENSION in
  165 'tgz' | 'tar.gz' )
  166   if ! which gzip 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then
  167     echo "ERROR:  gzip compression utility not found in \$PATH."
  168     exit 3
  169   fi
  170   ;;

I think it could only fail on not founding gzip executable. But you have.... Please attach the output of `which gzip` in root.

tomekdd · 06-14-2009, 06:26 AM

`which gzip` tells that gzip is located in /bin/gzip

grissiom · 06-14-2009, 06:41 AM

So I've no idea why makepkg fail.... ;(

tomekdd · 06-14-2009, 06:57 AM

Neither do I. I'll try to install the newest build, maybe it will help.

Thanks for everybody who participated in this thread.

forum1793 · 06-14-2009, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomekdd

Lets suppose I've installed some lib in /tmp/some_lib.
Now, from /some_lib directory I type

Code:

makekpg ../some_lib.tgz

and I get an error : "gzip compression utility not found in $PATH".

I'm not sure this is related to your problem but it seems like what you are suggesting is a recursion problem.

From you example, you are telling it to make a package from it's parent directory. In effect then you are telling it to create a package that will contain the package you want to create.

Try cd out of the directory and then create the package.

I've used many of the slackbuild scripts and with -12.2 and with the -currents (32 and 64) and haven't had any problems like you are discussing.

mlangdn · 06-14-2009, 12:39 PM

makepkg should be ran as root. You don't say how you ran makepkg, and /bin is not in a user's path. See this thread I was involved in when learning to use makepkg. Maybe something in there may help.

flat · 06-15-2009, 06:27 AM

Do you have the 'which' package installed? It is used by 'makepkg' to check for the compression utilities.

grissiom · 06-15-2009, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flat

Do you have the 'which' package installed? It is used by 'makepkg' to check for the compression utilities.

tomekdd said "`which gzip` tells that gzip is located in /bin/gzip" so he/she has which installed...