make prepare problem in libports / ports

[Christian Helmuth]

Hello Peter,

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:46:04PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> Error: Hash sum check for libssh failed
> make[2]: *** [libssh.file] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_install_in_port_dir] Error 2
> make: *** [prepare-libssh] Error 2

the download site for libssh currently has issues. So, maybe you
fetched something different from the expected libssh-0.5.4.tar.gz with
sha1sum of 4a372378db8fffaf28d5c79d80b2235843aa587c. I contacted the
webmaster just now.

> My host is Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit LTS.   I know this is not the recommended
> platform, but I don't have any existing 12.04 lying around.

At least one of our developers is also using 14.04 and has no
considerable issues.

> Similarly, for ports, "make prepare" gives:
> 
> /home/tthtlc/Downloads/genode/repos/ports/ports/gcc.port:19: *** Need to
> have 'autoconf2.64' installed..  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [_install_in_port_dir] Error 2
> make: *** [prepare-gcc] Error 2

In this case you should take the message literally: The port expects
you have installed the autoconf2.64 package of Ubuntu.

  aptitude install autoconf2.64

should do the trick.

Regards
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Christian Helmuth
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