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Re: what to do with hppa?



> I just bought and installed a HP C240. The big problem I had was that
> /usr/bin/update-menus was broken so that I couldn't run postinst for
> 100's of packages. I ended up deleted update-menus and made it a
> symlink to /bin/true.

btw, this is because we have broken exceptions handling in hppa-linux.
unfortunately, this might not get fixed until we move to gcc-3.3, or
someone backports Dave's work to gcc-3.2

(or, it might be easier for someone to actually finish one of the
attempts to rewrite menu in C :-)

randolph



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