* utsl@quic.net [2002-02-02T16:32-0500]: > Yes, I think we all have that problem. I'll write up a patch for > configure to support wildcards. I think that's the only place that > will actually need them. I've configured gcc to use > i386-unknown-freebsd4, so dpkg finds that when it looks for the arch > at runtime. (By looking at the path to gcc-lib. Yuck!) I've submitted a wishlist bug with patch attached against dpkg to get the architecture in a saner and more robust way (see http://bugs.debian.org/131893) :) > I think I can probably live with putting major version number in. > They aren't as frequent. I still fail to see why we need a version number in that string at all... It's the {Free,Net,Open}BSD _release_ number AIUI, and we only take the kernel... Cheers, M/ -- /~\ ASCII ribbon | "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your \ / campaign | ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down X against | people's throats." / \ HTML mail | -- Howard Aiken
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