Kolab 2.3.4 doesn't compile on Slackware 13.37

[Mark Berndt]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:46:59 pm Christoph Wickert wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 December 2011 15:42:21 Mike Höhn wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to install/compile Kolab 2.3.4 on Slackware 13.37, but it
> > fails.
> > 
> > Here's the log:
> > 
> > ---------
> > Changing to temporary working directory /tmp/install-
> > kolab.10321.6113.26892.2041 ...
> > 
> > Kolab installation tag (TAG):       kolab
> > Kolab installation prefix (PREFIX): /kolab
> > Kolab version (KOLAB_VERSION):      2.3.4
> > Kolab user name (USER):             kolab
> > Kolab user base UID (KID):          19414
> > Kolab restricted UID (KID):         19415
> > Kolab non-priviledged UID (KID):    19416
> > Exclude following Kolab packages:
> > 
> > Received no instructions. Trying to determine required action...
> > tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: shtool: Not found in archive
> > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> > Found a source based OpenPKG installer. Trying to install Kolab from
> > source. tar: Skipping to next header
> > tar: shtool: Not found in archive
> > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> > Creating binary openpkg package from
> > ./openpkg-20071227-20071227_kolab2.src.sh!
> > OpenPKG CURRENT Source Bootstrap Package, version 20071227_kolab2
> > Building for prefix /kolab on current platform
> > ++ extracting OpenPKG source distribution
> > ./openpkg-20071227-20071227_kolab2.src.sh:ERROR: failed to unpack into
> > directory "openpkg-20071227-20071227_kolab2.src"
> > ---------
> > 
> > Same happens with 2.3.0. But 2.2.4 compiles without problems on the same
> > machine.
> 
> This is strange because the OpenPKG package has not changed between 2.2.4
> and 2.3.4. Did you try 2.2.4 recently or was the host somehow changed in
> the meantime?
> 
> > Does anyone have an idea or perhaps even a solution?
> 
> To me this looks like this is a 64bit system, right? OpenPKG itself is 32
> bit and you need to have the necessary libs to compile 32 bit. In
> Fedora/RHEL/CentOS you need to install glibc.i686 and in Debian/Ubuntu it's
> ia32-libs. I guess there should be a similar package for Slackware.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph



Sorry for the obvious - do you have enough disk space?