Bug 108146 – no ebuild for chrony on amd64; patch available

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Chris Haumesser 2005-10-04 23:23:27 UTC]

There's currently no ebuild for chrony on amd64.  I realize the upstream source
does not build properly on amd64, as I tried it myself.  However, with the
Debian patch to chrony-1.20, it builds and works just fine on my gentoo amd64
machine.  I'd like to write an ebuild, but don't know how to do it yet.  Maybe
I'll learn soon.  In the meantime, thought I'd contribute the info to fix the
problem.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Chris Haumesser 2005-10-04 23:24:05 UTC]

Created attachment 69895 [details]
debian patch for chrony-1.20

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-10-05 00:21:43 UTC]

Uh, this is *huge*... I don't think that maintaining such patches is the best idea.

[Comment 3 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 13:01:39 UTC]

Thing is, if you comment out this:

/* We need `struct timespec' later on.  */
#  define __need_timespec
#  include <time.h>

in /usr/include/gentoo-multilib/amd64/signal.h (around line 208), chrony
compiles. Ihaven't yet tested it for longer amounts of time, so I don't know if
it's a workaround. It certainly is no fix per se.

Still, I suspect the problem in the include files or the way chrony uses them. I
can't really see why that monster patch would be necessary.

[Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2006-03-25 01:58:54 UTC]

chrony-1.21 has been commited to the tree with a patch to fix compilation on multiple arches.
Please test (it is currently package.masked).

[Comment 5 Chris Haumesser 2006-03-26 11:02:06 UTC]

I installed the 1.21 ebuild on amd64 yesterday afternoon.  It compiled cleanly, and so far seems to be working perfectly.  I'm happy.   :-)  Seems like 1.21 could probably be marked ~amd64 in the tree.  Thanks!!