missing pax causes install failures

[Hassan Karim]

I have tried to install sparc bsp=erc32 on 4 different builds. 3 failed, and 1 flawlessly installed. The others all seem to fail somewhere during make install of test suites. Each reports one missing config problem or another.

I believe the problem resulted in a missing package, pax & libbsd-dev on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-126-virtual x86_64)

I hadn't seen this exact problem because I normally update & upgrade as soon as I get a new image. Pressed for time, I skipped it. So, I am not sure if we need to update the documentation to directly include pax, since it is directly called in configure and breaks if not present.

​https://docs.rtems.org/rsb/#_host_setups
Under this section,
11.1.5. Ubuntu

Add pax to this line
$ sudo apt-get build-dep binutils gcc g++ gdb unzip git python2.7-dev pax

[Chris Johns]

This looks like a duplicate of #2437.

Solving this issue cleanly at the RSB level requires teaching the RSB about packages and then providing per host integration to the local packaging system if one is present. The RSB can build anything and so it is difficult to create a per host install list for everything that it could build. As a result there is currently a middle ground that is not cleanly covered leaving holes such as this one.

For pax please provide a documentation patch.

[Chris Johns]

Also the latest RSB documentation is ​https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/rsb/index.html

[Chris Johns <chrisj@…>]

In [changeset:"2cc9e2acd2ff48f913dfd2269b05740160d93c12/rtems-docs" 2cc9e2a/rtems-docs]:

Add PAX to the Ubuntu packages to install.

Closes #3008.

[Sebastian Huber]

Milestone renamed