Re: Status of the 'standard' and 'base' system for the amd64 port

[Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:50:52AM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> 
> netkit-base   : Add three missing 'break;' statements
> pam           : Add one missing 'continue;' statement
> debootstrap   : Install 'libstdc++6' as 'required' on amd64
> gcc-defaults  : Change the defaults (for amd64 only)
> gpm           : Apply patch from BTS to fix FTBFS (not amd64 specific)
>               : Remove one 'default:' label, add one 'break;' statement
> ifupdown      : Add one 'break;' statement

Those are all gcc-3.4 specific.  We're not sure if we want to do
gcc 3.4.

> mpack         : Remove wrong declarations of 'malloc' and 'getenv'

Not sure about this one

> mtr           : Replace Build-Depends on 'automaken' by 'automake1.4'
>                 Add 'autotools-dev' to Build-Depends
>                 Copy config.guess and config.sub from 'autotools-dev'
>                 Change 'res_mkquery' to '__res_mkquery' in resolver
>                   library check in 'configure.in' and 'configure'

Please properly patch those resolver bugs by fixing configure to
include <resolv.h>.  I'll send a good patch to the BTS for that shortly.

> aptitude      : Add 'template <>' in one place
> base-files    : Create 'lib64' -> 'lib' FHS 2.3 compatibility symlinks
> db4.2         : Replace '"$LD"' by '$LD' two times in 'configure'
>                 Add alternative Build-Depends on libgcj5-dev [amd64]
> libsigc++-1.2 : Replace '"$LD"' -> '$LD' two times in 'configure' 

I think you forgot atleast the following:
util-linux: Add amd64 to some lines in control/rules file.


Kurt