Various porting issues..
How long are porter rebuilds supposed to take to be processed? I uploaded
recompiles of a number of packages (built with -B -mmy_email), and they seem
to still be sitting in Incoming (eg: nethack and libsigc++)
Also, I have a report on SDL: I took a brief look at it and it's not going
to be ported in the near future, at least not by me. It has a configure script,
but the configure.in contains a number of gigantic "case" statements:
case "$target" in
linux)
# Stuff they think is available on "linux", whatever that means
beos)
# etc
# etc
esac
The stuff checked for in these blocks includes things like which libraries
to link to, which programs are available on the system (esd, for instance),
and so on.
I don't have the stomach at the moment to either look at or participate in
(by adding a load of "hurd" cases) their complete cluelessness about how
to write a configure script; if someone else wants to port it, take this as
a warning about what lies in store :-)
I have to go calm down, just looking at that monstrosity of a configure.in
again got me all riled up :P
Cheers,
Daniel
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