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Re: Bug#338191: Endianess change workaround



On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 01:54:31PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> Viti Davide wrote:
> >The wrong endianess problem can be workarounded fixing the png endianess
> >at build time.
> >This would involve using the "convert" utility (Imagemagick package)
> >against the png images when rebuilding rootskel-gtk
> >Movre details can be found here:
> >
> >http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
> >
> >Look for the "-endianess" option
> >
> >The arches which would need the fix should be: mips, armeb, powerpc,
> >m68k, sparc
> >
> 
> cool!
> so what should we do? move all PNGs from gtk-rootskel to the 
> architecture specific cdebconf-gtk-udeb after having corrected endianess ?

Yep, and the endianess can be fixed at build-time, not sure what the best way
is to check endianess in debian/rules though.

This would not fix the cursor thingy though, right ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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