On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 01:50:04AM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > i know how to compile debian packages, i maintain a few myself. it's > only that until now i dealt only with intel (and a brief aborted > attempt with an alpha) machines. i realize the distribution is mostly > experimental, and i am trying to help as much as i can. right now i am > trying to compile the latest xfree86 stuff, but the linker core dumps > when is trying to create the X11 shared library. also there are > problems with nvi, it won't let me edit a large file (it says it > doesn't know the name of the file, and i can't save it), and vim seems > to screw up the file altogether. ae core dumps, so i am kind of > limited in my choice of editors here.
That's a known problem (not with the linker, but with egcs). I've got X more or less covered at the moment thought (or I would if my external scsi didn't keep crashing). In fact, I am going to upload X to master as soon as I clear the NMU with Branden. The egcs bug is fixed in 1.1 snapshots, which I hopefully will also upload soon. ae is working fine for me, but try joe. > i am working with the powerpc tarball i got from master, and then i > did a dselect update, etc. things seem to be working okay, i changed > /etc/inittab to use getty instead of mingetty, which was in the > tarball, but didn't seem to belong to any package. anyway, the tarball > seems to work fine, if we only had an installation disk... Odd - oh yeah, I haven't uploaded a fixed util-linux yet. ALSO coming up this week, I think. > build I assume you mean dpkg-buildpackage :) Dan
