Bug#226509: apt: FTBFS when configured with --disable-nls

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
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> Unfortunately, there are a lot of places which will have similar problems,
> due to int and pid_t being used interchangeably.  For example, ExecFork
> returns int, even though in many places the result is stored in a pid_t.
> This needs to be cleaned up across the board.

Agreed.

> > Everything seems to build fine under Solaris 8, but I keep getting when
> > I run apt-get and apt-cache:
> > 
> > E: Unable to determine a suitable system type
> > 
> > I fiddled with the buildlib/*table files, but keep getting this.  Any
> > ideas?
> 
> The problem is in selecting the packaging system, not the system type.  You
> could try -o APT::System="Debian dpkg interface".

bash-2.05b# apt-get -o APT::System="Debian dpkg interface"
E: Packaging system 'Debian dpkg interface' is not supported

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Eric Wong