Re: Having trouble with newt

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Sunday 23 March 2008, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Sunday 23 March 2008, Neil Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:23:51 +0000
> >
> > Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
> > > The problem is that updated packages can break the patches and limited
> > > time means that it is hard to keep up.
> >
> > Updated.
> >
> > emsource -c newt
>
> Great, works a treat.
>
> That just leaves the oddity in gnupg (that is seems to execute the code
> that requires that cache file) and sysvinit.  Then I have the complete set
> of base files.
>
> sysvinit seems to have a problem with debian/readlink.  There is a
> readlink.c file in the debian directory, but it does not seem to get
> compiled.  It fails when it tries to install it.  All patches apply
> cleanly.
>
> David

Looking further at the debian/rules file there is a place to compile
the file, but it uses $CROSSCC, is this set for a non-cross compile?

David