Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news
It's probably going to stay like that until the upstream kpilot
maintainer fixes the build process, which is a mess at this point. I
spent a couple hours trying to fix it but got nowhere so I will just
leave it as-is at the moment :-)
John
Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
> >>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
>
> John> kpilot -- KDE hotsync tool
>
> Hm.. kpilot seems to have been statically linked with libpisock.
>
> [ben@gilgamesh:~]% dpkg -l 'libpi*' 1:38PM
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ii libpisock-dev 0.8.11-1 static libraries for communicating with a Pi
> ii libpisock3 0.8.11-1 Libraries for communicating with a Pilot PDA
>
> but kpilot doesn't depend on libpisock3 -- perhaps it's not dynamically
> linked? It should be, though.
>
> [ben@gilgamesh:~]% dpkg --status kpilot 1:38PM
> Package: kpilot
> Status: install ok installed
> Installed-Size: 1207
> Maintainer: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> Version: 3.0.2-1
> Depends: kdelibs0g (>= 2:980312), libc6, libstdc++2.8 (>= 2.90.26-1), qt1g (>= 1.33-5), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
> Description: PalmPilot/III hotsync package
> Kpilot provides file transfer and sync capabilities for owners of
> the 3COM PalmPilot or Palm III PDAs. It currently includes conduits
> for mail, datebook, and memo pad.
>
> Also, kpilot for some reason includes a lot of extra files, like:
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libpisock.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libpisock.la
>
> Yuck! Those shouldn't be in there.
>
> Good luck.
>
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