Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news
>>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
John> Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils,
John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and
John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was
John> quite a chore to package but it is quite exciting what can
John> be done with it!
John> I'd like feedback on it. I have opted to package it as it
John> is done upstream; that is, all the programs in one thing.
Okay, here's a bit of feedback. :)
prc-tools includes almost all of its files in /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/,
except two:
gilgamesh:/home/che# dpkg --contents prc-tools_0.5.0-2_i386.deb
*snip*
-rw-r--r-- root/root 142336 1998-06-16 13:54 usr/lib/libreadline.a
-rw-r--r-- root/root 20270 1998-06-16 13:54 usr/lib/libmmalloc.a
*snip*
This makes it impossible to install prc-tools if you have
libreadlineg2-dev or any other package that has libmmalloc.a included
(not sure what this is offhand).
These two should be moved into /usr/m68k-palmos-coff/.
John> The upstream prc-tools consists of patches against gcc,
John> binutils, and gdb plus its own software. The prc-tools
John> source package does not include the gcc, binutils, and gdb
John> source itself. Is this correct?
This is a hard one; I think the point of a source package is to
have *everything* you need to build the target. If you have to
download other things, it becomes difficult quickly.
I'm not sure what the right solution is.
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