[L2Ork-dev] Building purr-data for armv7l

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Hi Heiko,
Thanks for the report!

I have some comments below

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:57 PM, Heiko Nickerl <dev at heiko-nickerl.com> wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I took the challenge and compiled the current master of purr-data for armv7l
> (using an Odroid-xu4 which runs armbian strech).
>
> I went trough some trouble (using `make incremental`) and had to tinker in
> 1-2 places. Maybe you're interested in my findings.
> Please let me know if there is a better way to report a bug to this project.
>
>
> The first problem should most probably be forwarded to the wiringpi project.
> Heres' the build error:
> ld  -shared -o disis_spi.l_arm disis_spi.o -lc -lm
> ld: disis_spi.o: relocation R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC against `a local symbol'
> can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> disis_spi.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
> ../makefile.include:98: recipe for target 'disis_spi.l_arm' failed
> make: *** [disis_spi.l_arm] Error 1
>
> I'm terrible with C, but google helped me and my fix was:
> Insert following line before line 98 in
> /usr/local/src/purr-data-hnicke/l2ork_addons/raspberry_pi/makefile.include:
>
>     $(eval override CFLAGS += -fPIC)

You should be able to just add `-fPIC` directly in line 98 (as it
appears in line 91).

>
>
>
> Missing build dep:
> - fakeroot (required for the linux_make's deb target)
>
>
> Wrong permissions in DEBIAN (control dir):
> When building the deb package, dpkg-deb complained about DEBIAN dir having
> wrong permissions: Needs >=0755 && <=0775, but has 2755.
> Fixed this with following line (insert before line 184 in
> /usr/local/src/purr-data-hnicke/packages/linux_make/Makefile:
>
>    chmod -R g-s $(DESTDIR)/DEBIAN
>
>
>
>
> In the end I've managed to build purr-data. In case anyone is interested in
> the .deb, here it is:
>
> https://cloud.hnicke.de/index.php/s/2AgzGnwT5Ec6KFP
>
>
> After installing and running, some further errors occured. These
> dependencies are currently missing:
>
> - libnss3
> - libgconf-2-4
> - libxss1

Those are unfortunately some dependencies of nw.js, the GUI toolkit
Purr Data uses.

libnss is pretty standard.

I guess libxss1 has something to do with suppressing the screensaver
when in fullscreen mode? (Just guessing really.)

libgconf-2-4 is an unused preferences-storing mechanism.

Those should probably be added to the dependencies listed in the
build instructions from the README.md page at git.purrdata.net.

If you want to send me a merge request adding those libs I'll
merge it.

>
> After that purr-data works like a charm.
> Thank you so much for the effort!

Glad to hear you got it working!

-Jonathan

>
> Best
> Heiko Nickerl
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