Re: Bug#226509: apt: FTBFS when configured with --disable-nls
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > bash-2.05b# apt-get -o APT::System="Debian dpkg interface"
> > E: Packaging system 'Debian dpkg interface' is not supported
> "apt-get --version" will tell you which packaging systems, if any, were
> compiled in. Perhaps there was another problem with the build which was
> overlooked.
A silly linker trick is used to link in packaging systems that get
compiled. This doesn't work with static libraries.. You need to explicitly
reference the initialization instances to get the linker to link them.
Jason
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