On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, steve crosby wrote: > Just a heads up - util-linux 2.13 will remove several items, as per > the following changelog entry for pre1 > > Changes: > GNU autoconf/automake/libtool are now used for building. schedutils > were added. Support for curses implementations other than ncurses was > removed. The arch, passwd, rescuept, and setfdprm programs were > removed. mkminix-0.1/ was removed. Misc fixes and documentation > updates were made. A translation was added for the vi locale. The > translations for the ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, and tr locales were > updated. > > This may impact some apps that use "arch" in their configure stage (I > know at least perl used arch at some stage) >
Thanks for the heads-up Steve. I know my scripts use arch to decide on architecture-specific variations, but a quick look at the man page says it's equivalent to 'uname -m' so shouldn't be a big deal anywhere. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
