Re: Native EGCS 1.0.3a available
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:51:10PM -0700, Robert Coie wrote:
>
> I also have longer-term dreams of porting dpkg, Debian's package
> manager, which would allow us to contribute and share our work more
> effectively with the debian-mips effort. It might also be helpful for
> package management and synchronization of software installation
> between a host computer and the H/PsPC.
I once compiled dpkg for the mipsel platform (Decstation). It works
just fine except dselect (same source package) which i was not
able to build at that stage because of the missing ncurses.
> Besides, I want perl :)
I wasnt able to build that - It failed on some post-compile test.
BTW: I took a different approach. I installed a base redhat
and just unpacked the debhelper/debmake/dpkg-dev things (binary-all)
and first built the dpkg ... Then i started corrently building
packages with dpkg-buildpackage which worked ok for
a lot of packages ... (and some more with minor tweaks). All
packages had the same problems: Missing/Wrong dependencies
as there were no installed shared libs (from /var/lib/dpkg).
Flo
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