Re: Why dpkg is linux-centric?
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:54:58PM +0000, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> 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.
Does FreeBSD not have shared libs?
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