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Re: Why dpkg is linux-centric?



On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:58:44PM +0000, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2000 16:40:48 +0200, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> >> >That means your gcc build is broken, you can't blame dpkg for that.
> >> 
> >> Why we can't make a workaround for that?
> >
> >Your the one with the broken system...be my guest :)
> 
> Gee, this is gnuizm :)
> 
> What do you think about 
> ./configure --with-broken-libgcc ?

Why not just add checks in the query to notice the error? Print an error
to stderr and fallback to build-arch on stdout? That will atleast cause it
to get a default but still print output usable by the caller.

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