On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:04:16AM -0700, Edward Betts wrote: > David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote: > > It's not good, but it's unavoidable. We had this discussion before on > > debian-devel, the resolution was that if it's unavoidable, it's > > unavoidable. No one's going to kick dozens of packages out of Debian > > because they depend or build-depend on a package that build-depends > > itself. > > How do you build the package on a new arch? Depends on the program. Some, like gnat, have fairly standardized bootstrapping procedures that someone has to run manually. Others may take writing a new backend to a compiler, in which you take that arch out of the arch list until if and when someone choses to do so. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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