Re: portability as a goal for debian?
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> While working on the OpenBSD port of debian I notice several
> spots in the debian package infrastructure which are not portable
> accross unices. These are mostly gnuisms of make, but also in the
> gnu file utilitys. Other problems arise when in the packages
>...
Please don't try to let the OpenBSD port of Debian work without the GNU
tools. The GNU tools are portable and I don't expect many problems getting
them running on OpenBSD. And is there a good reason not to use e.g.
GNU make?
cu
Adrian
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