On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 12:13:39PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > Dear all, > > The idiot's guide (new version) is currently on hold. This is > becuase there are still issues that are unresolved: > > 1) do we ditch the symlink? > > I think so, and this seems to be the consensus. HOwever, until Gordon has > time to deal with rpaths in glibc (NB - I am not nagging you Gordon :) ), > my dpkg won't work. I don't think I should change the idiot's guide until > dpkg works...
No, we don't ditch it. We offer both ways as alternatives. Try to explain the issue in the idiot guide. > 2) Can I do anything useful now? > > I've tried cross-compiling several things now, but have yet to get very > far. I guess I'll have to wait for native builds to be possible. > > btw - what does the make-cross package do? It is intended to set up a cross compilation environment, but it is better to use Santiagos i386-gnu-gcc package, which is based on make-cross. Note that getting a usable cross compilation setup is not as easy as it looks, it took us some time to get all small bells and whistles in it. Furthermore, I have some nice scripts which make it easier/possible to use the Debian tools, which are not in public, yet (but see below). I could document it, but we are so close to native building that it doesn't look worth it. What can you do? I have posted a list of things to be done in the Debian scripts, you could look into that. You could also investigate why find ...|xargs always returns the error "too many command line arguments" I would like to resolve all known bugs in the base system before we move on. Are you a registered Debian developer? In this case you can look into my proposal to enhance the Debian building process for the Hurd and second it (if you support it). The adress is http://www.de.debian.org/Bugs/db/31/31946.html If I don't get two seconders, nothing will happen. If I get, there is a twqo weeks discussion time before it is approved (or not). If it does not get approved, we face a dilemma :) Please only _second_ the proposal if you indeed are a registered Debian developer, or the policy group will hurt you :) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
