On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 03:28:02PM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > I know dpkg-cross, and it does a good job to work around it. Remember it is > > a _hack_. It's a hack which works quite good, but it is limited due to > > "broken" debian/rules and upstream Makefiles. > > I'd give it more credit than that, it is more elegant than a cheap hack.
Just that there is no misunderstanding: dpkg-cross will continue to be essential for successful cross compilation. It may be a good idea to merge dpkg-cross into dpkg-dev, however, the functionality of dpkg-cross is absolutely needed, in particular the shlibdeps for the hurd, the cross-config utility, and the right options so you can sign and upload the package. dpkg-cross does most of the work on the cross compilers side. However, it can do very little about debian/rules files, which is were my suggestions work. Together, they'll be a stronge tream :) 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
