[Slackbuilds-users] Another build error: glabels

[David Woodfall]

On Thursday 4 October 2018 05:50,
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> put forth the proposition:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, 414N wrote:
>
> > I've got no problems too building glabels on a Slackware64 14.2 system
> > with Eric's multilib packages installed.
>
> > If it is gcc, what version are you using? Is it 
> > "gcc-5.5.0_multilib-x86_64-1alien"?

Rich,

Sorry to reiterate this point, and I apologise if it seems obvious to
you, but just to be clear, I'm wondering how long ago you installed
the multilib packages and if you check for updates?

It's a good idea to do an rysnc of the multilib server from
time-to-time to check if there have been any updates.

Dave

> Alan,
>
>   The issue seems to be the newness of the hardware, most likely the CPU;
> perhaps also the motherboard. Packages that have built with no issues on the
> three 64-bit portables here that are older will not build on this new
> system.
>
>   A couple of examples. OpenBLAS (which I need for GRASS, the spatial
> analysis tool) would not build until I added a line to the build script
> specifying TARGET=ZEN. 'ZEN' is the codename for AMD's Ryzen line of
> high-performance CPUs that were first released last year. Adding that target
> allowed OpenBLAS to build.
>
>   AlienBOB wrote that he, too, has a Ryzen CPU in a desktop and experienced
> some failure issues just running. He fixed that by uupgrading the 14.2's
> kernel to one in the 4.14 series.
>
>   In order to build GnuCash I need goffice/goffice8, and neither will build
> on this new box. But, LyX, TeXlive, and JabRef built flawlessly (and
> quickly.) All this seems to point to support for a CPU released well after
> the basic (and fully patched) 14.2 was released.
>
>   Unless Those Who Know tell me not to upgrade to -current, just upgrade the
> kernel (and it's been more than 15 years since I built a custom kernel from
> kernel.org source; not since 2003 when I switched from Red Hat 7.4 to
> Slackware-8.0) I'll do the upgrade this coming weekend. After learning how
> best to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich

--
Dave

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