Re: Problems compiling packages

[Guy Maor <maor@1Cust7.max36.los-angeles.ca.ms.uu.net>]

Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> writes:

> I'd suggest that all such packages only try to compile and package the
> libc5 packages if there is a libc5 installed.

No, that's a bad idea.  A package might silently build incorrectly
because a developer didn't have libc5 or libc5-dev installed.

Unfortunately hard-coding the architectures which do (or don't) have
libc5 isn't very aesthetic.  Does anybody have a better idea?


Guy


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