On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:12:17AM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote: > Also, it installs the wrong binary as "cmkdir". Apparently no one > has used this package in 3 years besides me, and I'm powerless to fix > it. :-(
That's the main reason I'm trying to work on it -- a friend told me about this bug, which makes it completely useless. Unfortunately, I cannot see how this package ever built. The binaries in slink and potato are libc5 (I guess it slipped through the cracks being in non-US), but looking at the header files in /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include, it wouldn't build on libc5 either if I tried it. I checked the header files on a Solaris 2.6 box and a FreeBSD 3 box and it wouldn't build on either of those either. It seems to be abandoned upstream too, so I think I'll just forget it as Ray suggests, and perhaps package one of the newer equivalents. There's also a host of other minor bugs; ssh(1) manual page (should be xsh(1) -- it installs the same page as both), and I just noticed that the binaries aren't stripped either. It also has a highly obscure build process, involving a script called debian/debstd, another script called debian/install, and a data file containing a list of files, directories, symlinks etc called debian/tmp.files. Interesting in a way. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
