Good news re: man-db

[Guenter Geiger <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>]

 > 
 > Oh, and I'm also recompiling the xfree86 stuff right now.  It's taken the
 > better part of a day so far on my poor, underpowered UDB, so I hope that

Sorry, I've already done this and didn't send you the patches. ( Btw A lot
of fun with 500 MHz .. ). I think this whole thing is due to a lack of
communication from my side ..

So I will introduce myself.

I' m working at the IEM (Institute for Electronic Music) in Graz,
Austria. My goal is to make the Debian distribution the distribution
of choice for Computer Music applications. Thats why I switched to
Debian on our Alpha machine. ( I have to compile most of the
applications myself, anyway ). I'm not very involved into the Alpha
porting thing, because it uses most of my time to get these
applications running. 
And in fact, for me Debian/Alpha is already running quite well.

 > programmes shortly.  I only decided to do this AFTER learning that alot of
 > the other maintainers are, for some strange reason, orienting their
 > packages towards libc6 AND libc5-cross-compiling systems.....go
figure.

I pointed this out to the maintainer of xfree, he said he will include
my patches in his next release (3.3-8).  
What I did to make xfree work:

   - adding -D_REENTRANT
	- adding -libcrypt for xdm
   - improve include file handling in xterm
   - removed xlib5 compiling for architectures not i386 

I will upload my diffs to beezer. I am a volunteer for  compiling
xfree_3.3-8 if it is finished.

Again, sorry for my sloppy handling of these things, I will try to improve.

Guenter


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