Chad Miller writes: > (Cross-?)Compile GNU programs for SunOS, and release them. No kernel, no > Sun binaries, &c. It should contain exactly everything that's released > with Debian Linux or Hurd, except the kernel, and kernel loader.
I was toying with the same idea a few years back when I was working as a sysadm at the university. I still think it has a lot of potential. One challenge (or so it seemed to me at the time, things may have changed a lot since then) will be to find a way to integrate the necessary changes with the package itself, in as non-intrusive way as possible. It is not fair to a package maintainer to request of him to go out of his to support a non-standard (in the apropriate sense) setup. However, one should be able to persuade most to cooperate in not actively preventing it either :-) My idea was to add a new "rules" file (I called it "localrules") which would call the real "rules" with the apropriate modifications on the command line. One of the powerfull things about `make' is that you may override any variable in a makefile, by adding something on the commandline. One then needed to go over the "rules" file to make sure all paths was properly related to variables that could be overridden by "localrules". I remember `dpkg' as a good example of a package that needed tweaking. ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8738 2228 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.tbit.dk ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
