On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 10:23:54AM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > (how do we know if packages we create work on other platforms?) > > That's the question, here's a bit of an explanation. > > I create several packages...2 of which (horde-core and imp) are built for all > since they are just html/php3 codes and not platform specific. But 2 others > (rrdhcp and rrlogin) are not. I build them on i386 systems and have no clue > (other than the author saying they "should" work on other platforms) whether > they will compile/work on say m68k, hurd, sparc platforms.
Most likely the porters who run the autobuild systems will let you know of any compile problems. Being a sparc autobuild system maintainer, I can report that rrdhcpd compiles fine on sparc, however the build setup is broke horribly since it tries to install into the live filesystem instead of debian/tmp where they should be. I'm not sure how you got a working package out of this but it wont build right from the source you've uploaded. I personally wont build this on sparc until that is fixed. I would have filed a bug report by now, but sparc unstable is so far behind, I have had little time. Ben
