FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Misc. problems building Haiku on Linux

[Vegard Wærp <beos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

After I posted a small guide for builing Haiku under Linux at my blog 
yesterday [1] there has come some reports about people having problems 
building Haiku and/or the cross compiler under miscellaneous Linux distros.

I thought I'd forward the reports to the list in case someone here knows 
why it happens/how to fix it. (The more versions of Linux Haiku builds 
on, the more potential developers :))

Sorry for the limited info regarding which revision they where trying to 
build, which version of their distro they were using etc, but this all 
the info that I've got myself. Hopefully someone gets something useful 
out of it.


Some are having problems building the cross tools, with the build 
failing with:

from /home/kane/haiku-src/buildtools/binutils/gas/app.c:30:
/home/kane/haiku-src/buildtools/binutils/gas/config/tc-i386.h:451: 
error: array type has incomplete element type
make[3]: *** [app.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/kane/haiku-src/haiku/generated/cross-tools-build/binutils/gas'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/kane/haiku-src/haiku/generated/cross-tools-build/binutils/gas'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/kane/haiku-src/haiku/generated/cross-tools-build/binutils/gas'
make: *** [all-gas] Error 2
kane@ubuntu:~/haiku-src/haiku$

This one has been reported both on Ubuntu and Fedora. Don't know which 
versions though.


Someone also reported the build of Haiku itself failing with the message 
pasted here:

<http://rafb.net/paste/results/9KLkyC15.txt>

This one has been reported on Ubuntu Breezy and Gentoo


Regards,
Vegard

1: 
<http://www.vegardw.com/blog/index.php/2005/11/12/cross_compiling_haiku_on_linux>