Re: Automatic building of Debian: some results

[Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Roman Hodek wrote:
> 
> > (Those who have been doing automatic builds as parts of the porting
> > efforts can probably add more comments to this.)
> 
> We (m68k) didn't really do it automatically, only, maybe,
> semi-automatically... But my comments come :-)
> 
> > * Source dependencies would be nice, but we can do without them for
> > 	the time being by using a build machine that has lots of stuff
> > 	installed.
> 
> There are also negative source-dependencies (example: for bash,
> termcap-compat must not be installed, otherwise the resulting binary
> is linked with libtermcap.so...). So you can't install just any
> package you find :-)

This should be configurable via configure / debian/rules.  Please
file an appropriate whishlist bug.

> Hmm... to the end I became rather disappointed, but could be that all
> the easy packages were already recompiled and only the "bad" ones left
> :-)

Haha.

Gruesse,

	Joey

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