Re: svgalib on alpha
On 2 Nov 2000, Andy Mortimer wrote:
> There are a couple of bugs open about svgalib not building on the
> alpha. I'm mostly asking for advice here; I could just set
> Architecture: i386 and have done with it, but if it's possible to get
> it to build, that is clearly ideal!
>
> I did try, some time ago, but with no understanding of anything
> involved, it didn't go too well! Is there anybody on this list who
> might be able to have a look at this for me, or shall I just stop it
> even trying?
>
> At the time it came up last, Christopher Chimelis reckoned that it
> would be a difficult job with the sources in the state they were at
> that point, but I don't know how that differs from their current
> state. If forced to guess, I would say they are probably worse! ;-)
Ironically, I was *just* looking into getting this working again
(literally...this morning, in fact). I believe upstream is thinking of
dropping Alpha support, unfortunately. I *might* be able to hack up some
patches to it that maintains the current code status (meaning, a different
deb will be needed for each alpha system family type...which is bad). I'd
much rather look into some patches that I just dug up that try to make
SVGAlib more subtype-independent on Alpha, though.
In short, I'll look into it after I do today's woody compiles and fix gts
once and for all (meaning today).
C
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