Compiling MySQL 4.1 on PowerPC from src.rpm

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu (Warty) on my Powerbook (TI) for one Month now, and after
getting all the ppc-specific problems solved (key-mapping,
cpu-frequency-scaling etc.), I'm now compiling some packages from
source-rpms, because either they are missing in the source-tree or the
version within the source tree is to old.

But there's one package, which i could not get compiled/installed:

If I try to use alien to convert the MySQL 4.1.7 source-rpm to a debian
package, i get the following error:

Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 |
        xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/mysql
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture powerpc does not appear
in package's list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280

Ok, as I know MySQL compiles well on my platform, so I just added my
architecture to the debian/control - file. And than started on with
dpkg-gencontrol within the build-directory. In now have the .deb-package and
the .dsc, but there is no way to get it installed (dpkg reports, package was
not installed because of strange package confilcts, where no packages are
mentioned (?) ). So it seems like i missed some steps for creating the deb.

So my question is: Is there a way to override the "build architecture" for
alien, or if not, can somebody please tell me how to convert the rpm the
right way?

Maybe another way is to compile MySQL from the source.tar.gz: Does anybody
know all the nessesary --bindir=.. --sbindir=... --lib=... --datadir=...
paths for the configure script?

Regards
Sebastian

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