Re: porting problem and how to request help
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Some weeks ago I received Bug#96254 on one of my package: ocaml-xstr,
> the problem is a build failure on a m68k machine. The reason is that a
> package needed in ocaml-xstr compilation named ocaml-findlib, does not
> work well on a m68k architecture.
> I forwarded the problem to the upstream author and I told me that he
> does not like to solve architecture specific problem, OTOH I do not have
> time and knowledge to debug problems on m68k arch.
>
> How can I solve the problem?
The quick and ugly way is of course to build a new debian package
that excludes m68k from the supported architectures.
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