[Ardour-Users] Building Ardour w/VST fails in a chroot environment.

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:02 +0100, Juanjavier wrote:
> I am trying to build Ardour doing 
> 
> apt-get source ardour
> 
> from outside the chroot environment.
> 
> Then I enter the chroot environment with
> 
> /chroot ./
> 
> Downlad and copy vst SDK in .../libs/fst
> 
>   Edit SConstruct changing 
> 
> BoolOption('VST', 'Compile with support for VST', 0)
> 
> per
> 
> BoolOption('VST', 'Compile with support for VST', 1)
> 
> 
> This is how it fails:
> 
> 
> /*******************************
> detected DIST_TARGET = i686
> *******************************
> 
> cat: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory
> IndexError: list index out of range:
>   File "/tmp/ardour-2.1/SConstruct", line 613:
>     x86_flags = flag_line.split (": ")[1:][0].split ()
> 
> /What am I missing?

As the message says you are missing the /proc/cpuinfo in your chroot
environment.  You can either symlink the /proc entirely into your chroot
directory or simply create a 'proc' directory in your chroot directory
and do:

  cat /proc/cpuinfo >proc/cpuinfo

/J\