Re: Bug#24334: libc4 missing in hamm
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 09:59:05AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Anton Rebhan wrote:
> > > If the only severe problem with this package is that its package format is no
> > > longer up-to-date, couldn't there be simply a non-maintainer-upload?
> >
> > The problem is that our current development tools are no longer able to
> > compile the libc4-librarries. And since it's policy to make sure all
> > packages in the distribution can be compiled using the supplied source
> > we can't include libc4.
> >
> > If you have a solution to make libc4 compile using our current development
> > suite we would be very happy to know about it.
> >
> Can't we just put the bo libc4 package in hamm/contrib?
contrib is not intended to be a dumping ground for bad packages.
The fact is that libc4 just doesn't build on the current dlltools
(in fact, I can't even find the dll tools package any more). It might
be possible to build it on a bo system using dlltools of that era,
which would at least solve the old-source-format issue, but wouldn't
really be a good fix. I might get some time on the weekend to look at it
if anyone thinks it's worthwhile. I have tried to build it on libc6
and just couldn't work out how to do it, and now dlltools seems to be
gone too.
Hamish
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