Help with Slackbuilds

pm_a_cup_of_tea · 04-30-2022, 05:55 AM

Hi,

I've just installed aarch64 on my raspi4 8GB and have installed some slackbuilds from the 15.0 repository (there hasn't been much change in current so thought it should be fine).

On the whole I haven't had too many failures. I have found that I have had to adapt some of the scripts by adding a couple of lines, especially when dealing with libraries to make sure that 1) they build 2) they build in the correct place.

eg:

Code:

if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
  case "$( uname -m )" in
    i?86) ARCH=i586 ;;
    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
    aarch64*) ARCH=aarch64 ;;
       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
  esac
fi

...

if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
elif [ "$ARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then
  SLKCFLAGS="-02 -fPIC"
  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
else
  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
fi

The problem that I am having is with the dependency to Abiword... 'Wv'.

I am getting this message:

Quote:

checking build system type... Invalid configuration `aarch64-slackware-linux': machine `aarch64-slackware' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub aarch64-slackware-linux failed

I tried to build directly from source.. just to experiment.. and I am geting a very similar message. Before installing slackwarearm64 I toyed with 64 bit on the pi using both arch and the raspberrypi OS and was able to install Abiword successfully.

Is there something I can do? I'm only a computer hobbyist so there is a very strong likelihood that I missed something. I require a word processor and the thought of building Libreoffice just for writer does not spark joy.

On a side note:

I am having problems with firefox it seems xcompmgr maybe, at least superficially, be the issue. My setup is fluxbox, rxvt-unicode and xcompmgr, I've overclocked to 1400 and have over voltage set to 4. Everytime I right click on firefox it freezes and I can only get rid of it by xkill, sometimes the whole display freezes and I have to unplug and reboot. I've disabled xcompmgr and this seems to fix the right click problem but occasionally I am still getting the complete freeze (I tried overclocking to see if that fixes it but it doesn't seem to be making a difference).*

*this should probably have been a separate post.

mralk3 · 04-30-2022, 12:03 PM

You can try adding autoreconf -fi right above the configure within the SlackBuild. That should set the build target straight. You will see warnings in the configure output and that is consistent with my experience. It fixes the issue but is an ugly hack. Let me know here if you find a better solution.

Regarding the ARCH variable, that will be set to the right architecture without edit, due to uname -m.

The last change:

Code:

elif [ "$ARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then
  SLKCFLAGS="-02 -fPIC"
  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"

Is accurate and I do the same thing.

pm_a_cup_of_tea · 04-30-2022, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mralk3

You can try adding autoreconf -fi

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it

Dunc. · 05-09-2022, 04:55 AM

The problem with the build system type is down to automake. Or more precisely the automake used in the original package which might be so old aarch64 was not a valid system when they ran automake. The way round it might be as simple as going for the latest version which has an update to automake in it. If that is not an option you can copy 2 files from your system to overwrite the old ones.

In a slackbuild you typically unpack the package and cd into the directory. This is where I put the copy commands which is just before the configure or cmake.

Code:

cp /usr/share/automake*/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/automake*/config.guess .

Dunc.

mralk3 · 05-09-2022, 10:22 AM

Thank you for clarifying Dunc. You reminded me that the mozilla-thunderbird slackbuild addresses this already.

Code:

find ./ -name config.sub -exec cp /usr/share/automake-*/config.sub {} ';'
find ./ -name config.guess -exec cp /usr/share/automake-*/config.guess {} ';'