Re: help needed with mips build failure

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Clearly not, or it wouldn't have failed to build on mips and mipsel.  There
> > is nothing "perfectly working" about that version of libtool, and moreover,
> > its effects are not limited to the mips architectures -- as the obscenely
> > long list of library dependencies of the gnucash package are almost
> > certainly also caused by use of this old, buggy version of libtool.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the upstream sources build on ordinary mips
> distributions, but I'm not certain of this.

I doubt that, simply because Debian _is_ the ordinary Linux/MIPS
distribution. :-) The alternatives are Gentoo, a very outdated
Redhat port, or one of the commercial embedded Linux distributions.


Thiemo