[Bf-committers] [Bf-linux] Portability issues

[Ken Hughes]

I'm forwarding to the committer's mailing list; the bf-linux list is 
more for discussing issues related to official builds from blender.org.

Ken

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure that this belongs to this ML, but I think it could (given
> the description: “[…] official builds for various linux flavors and
> testing”).
>
> When building the gfpoken package on the architectures Debian supports,
> they are build failures due to Blender being unable to open a given
> .blend:
> | guessing 'blender-bin' == '/usr/bin/blender-bin'
> | Compiled with Python version 2.4.4.
> | Checking for installed Python... got it!
> | Loading ./art/marbles.blend failed: File incomplete
> | 
> | Error: no such file or Blender text -- initdir.
> | ERROR: No camera
> | 
> | Blender quit
>
> This happens on hppa, mips, s390, so endianness was supposed to be the
> problem (http://bugs.debian.org/441216) but not on powerpc (neither on
> the build daemon, or on my PowerPC G4 box). Unfortunately, I've no
> access to any box of the above-mentioned kinds.
>
> Does someone have any lead on what you could be going wrong? I also
> checked the “header”, and it looks like the file has been saved using
> blender 2.44, so I hoped it wouldn't suffer from portability issues.
>
> The .blend file is available on the Debian mirrors, in the gfpoken
> tarball (file: art/marbles.blend), which can be found e.g. at:
>   ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gfpoken/
>
> The current version being:
>   ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gfpoken/gfpoken_0.30.orig.tar.gz
>
> Cheers,
>
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