Re: Help! fceu FTBFS on many archs

[joe@nahmias.net (Joe Nahmias)]

> If your program uses svgalib as one possible display method
> (e.g. gnuplot), you can either:
> 
>  a) build-depend on svgalib1g-dev | svgalib-dummyg1
James,

I did this, but I am having a problem with `apt-get build-dep` -- it
wants to install svgalib-dummyg1 even on i386!  Here is the output in my
unstable chroot with Debug::pkgProblemResolver turned on:

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(sid) root@a750:~ # apt-get build-dep fceu
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Note, selecting zlib1g-dev instead of libz-dev
Note, selecting libsdl1.2-dev instead of libsdl-dev
Starting
Starting 2
Investigating svgalibg1-dev
Package svgalibg1-dev has broken dep on svgalibg1
  Considering svgalibg1 1 as a solution to svgalibg1-dev 9999
    Reinst Failed because of protected svgalib-dummyg1
Package svgalibg1-dev has broken dep on svgalib-dummyg1
  Considering svgalib-dummyg1 9998 as a solution to svgalibg1-dev 9999
Investigating svgalib-dummyg1
Package svgalib-dummyg1 has broken dep on svgalibg1-dev
  Considering svgalibg1-dev 9999 as a solution to svgalib-dummyg1 9998
    Reinst Failed because of svgalibg1
Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsdl1.2-dev libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-oss svgalib-dummyg1
  xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-dev zlib1g-dev
0 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
Need to get 22.5kB/5515kB of archives. After unpacking 20.4MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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If you would like to try for yourself, add the following to sources.list:
deb-src http://www.cooper.edu/~nahmia/debian /

Thanks for your help!
Joe Nahmias