[Gambas-user] GT2_10.1 Ubuntu ARM

[John Spikowski]

On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 01:17 -0700, John Spikowski wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:52 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Gambas cannot run on Android. It requires a GNU operating system at the 
> > moment.
> > 
> 
> I'm seeing some strange version checking going on as I try to get
> autoconf, automake and libtool installed. When I run apt-get install
> autoconf, I get the following error when I just built m4 from scratch
> successfully. It almost seems like the 'BackTrack' distro is calling the
> shots what can and can't be installed via apt-get. (shooting at stars
> with that guess)
> 
> I'm going to try and build autoconf, automake and libtool from source if
> this is the case.
> 
> ======================
> All 69 tests passed
> (8 tests were not run)
> ======================
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/build/m4-1.4.13/tests'
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/build/m4-1.4.13/tests'
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/build/m4-1.4.13/tests'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/build/m4-1.4.13/tests'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/build/m4-1.4.13'
> root at ...40...:~/build/m4-1.4.13# cd ..
> root at ...40...:~/build# apt-get install autoconf
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   autoconf: Depends: m4 (>= 1.4.13) but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> root at ...40...:~/build# 
> 

At this point my guess is that the BackTrack5 repositories aren't
releasing the auto* utilities as they haven't passed their 'bullet
proof' suite yet. I'm build the suite from source and running 'make
check' on each to validate it's integrity. 

I can't wait for the apt-get of the Gambas dependencies to see what is
being 'held back'. I know the qt4 may have to be a manual install. I
remember something about a 'hold back' when doing my last apt-get
update/upgrade. 

I'm curious, was the Raspberry Pi Gambas3 binary distribution built with
a cross compiler (on Intel/AMD Linux) or native under Ubuntu ARM on the
Pi?