Re: Why dpkg is linux-centric?
On 4 Oct 2000 15:22:24 +0200, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:12:53PM +0000, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
>> I've tried compile dpkg on freebsd and atheos. Unfortunately, dpkg is
>> linux-centric.
>
>Umm, probably because we deal mainly with Linux and Hurd. Try sending in
>some patches. We've never used freebsd on other OS's, so people who are
>interested in having it run there should be willing to port and submit
>patches. Do you think gcc got to freebsd by someone who wasn't using it on
>freebsd? :)
dpkg requires gcc exactly for Linux or HURD.
gcc doesn't work on freebsd, because:
dexter@sawa:/backup0/home/dexter> gcc -print-libgcc-file-name
/usr/lib/libgcc.a
Its output is not canonical. I this dpkg should fallback to default.
At this time it dies because of wrong gcc version.
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