woof-CE Fails to build Fossapup64 Devx

[rockedge]

Ran woof-CE in a Bionic64-8.0 to build a Fossapup64. Looks like it produced the ISO file but no devx. Due to the lack of Compressor "zstd" support in Bionic64. What a bummer to look at the system's result and see what I needed the most, the devx, is sitting in /sandbox3/ but never made it through the squash processes.

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Now creating devx_fossapup64_9.6.sfs ...
mksquashfs: Compressor "zstd" is not supported!
mksquashfs: Compressors available:
	gzip
	lzma
	lzo
	xz (default)
chmod: cannot access './sandbox3/devx_fossapup64_9.6.sfs': No such file or directory
...done

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Perhaps if the zstd support fails that woof-ce changes to another compression type?
Strange is this Bionic64 PPM reports the lib's are there and installed... but they're not.......

[foxpup]

I am a noob, never done that, but I wonder:
Is devx not there somewhere in a directory uncompressed?

[rockedge]

@foxpup it is, in ./sandbox3/devx.
I compressed it manually using dir2sfs. I reinstalled zstd lib's so later I will again start from step 0 and see if it runs through the steps 0,1,3

[dimkr]

Bionic64 is old, and its mksquashfs is old enough not to have zstd compression support. Just change SFSCOMP in _00build.conf to something that works, or use a newer Puppy to run woof-CE. Alternatively, you can build Puppy directly on GitHub.

[rockedge]

I have attempted to build on Github, I couldn't get it triggered and actions never seems to give me the proper Workflow selections. I will give it another go.
Funny is this Bionic64-8.0 is my very main system. Builds many many things. Runs many many things. Never out of the 300+ runs of woof-CE since before Xenial was a thing did I run into a zstd compression problem. The PPM says it's installed. It really isn't but when I do install it it seems to work.

Hmmmm a Puppy dev telling me my system is too old, now that's a riot! What's next, "not enough RAM"? All kidding aside thanks for the tip for a quick fix, and when my current older Fossapup64-CE is freed up from the current task of working on the murga forum database replacement, I'll build a Fossapup64 with woof-CE on that. Meanwhile I'll adjust the SFSCOMP in _00build.conf or test out the zstd compressor now installed on Bionic.

[dimkr]

Hmmmm a Puppy dev telling me my system is too old, now that's a riot!

What you're doing is like expecting to compile C++20 code with a C++ compiler from 2018. I'm don't understand why you blame me for this.

What's next, "not enough RAM"?

What do you do when when the cashier tells you "sir, this costs $2, but you gave me $1"? Do you say "no, it costs $1", say "no, I gave you $2", or what? If some piece of software uses 2 GB of RAM and you have 1, you can hate it, but don't expect wonders when you try to use it anyway, and don't blame others for not supporting your use case.

[rockedge]

I am kidding with you. I never expect anyone to do anything specifically for my case use. I'm flexible. Don't take it so seriously, and try to relax. I've been doing this since working on mini-mainframes in the 70's and I know what's going on, surprisingly. I follow every single commit done to woof-CE since I forked it 2-3 years ago.

I have plenty of RAM, one machine has 64 G and most of the others 8 G - 16 G. I have some really old ones going that sport from 790 M up to 4 G on slightly newer Dell desktops.

I was trying to have some fun but your busy.

I'll run woof-CE in another distro for sure and test out how that works. I am happy about how fast a build actually takes. Not long at all on a 16 G RAM Dell Optiplex 990 and a second run similar set up is like 10 minutes (downloads already completed).

[taersh]

Bionic64-9.0.5

???
Where's that version to download?
I have 8.0 only.

[rockedge]

@taersh I typed it in wrong. I fixed it to read 8.0