Re: Problems compiling packages

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Guy Maor 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?

That's what I wanted to prevent but I'd be happy with any other
mechanism.

Regards

	Joey

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