Re: Newbie question
--- Mark Paulus <mpaulus78@earthlink.net> schrieb: > >From what I
understand, you shouldn't be using _i386 as
> your architecture type. This seems to indicate for a unix
> kernel. The packages I built under my cygwin
> environment were built with a _w32 architecture. I don't
> even really like that, because I think we need to differentiate
> between native windows type apps, and cygwin dependant
> apps, since in my mind they also operate using a different
> kernel.
>
> I guess that's a question for the group. Does cygwin present
> enough of an extension to Microsoft windows that is could be
> considered and independant "flavour" of a kernel, and thus
> require another kernel-type indicator?
Well, this is the problem. I cannot create that using the existing
hard coded architecture types in the dpkg and the duplicated hardcoded
set in the deb helpers.
> what is libiconv-mingw1? Is it a .dll or .exe? If so, then you will
> have to
> modify the preinst & postinst scripts to account for any windows
> specific
> extensions, such as .dll & .exe. Painful and tedious, but
> necessary.
It is in fact just a statically linked lib and a set of datafiles.
I dont see why i need to modify them, but i will look. It looks like a
permissions error in the dpkg, i dont know where.
mike
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James Michael DuPont
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