Re: Problems compiling packages

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Guy Maor writes: > > I'd suggest that all such packages only try to compile and package the > > libc5 packages if there is a libc5 installed. > > No, that's a bad idea. A package might silently build incorrectly > because a developer didn't have libc5 or libc5-dev installed. > > Unfortunately ha

Re: Problems compiling packages

1997-12-16 Thread Guy Maor
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd suggest that all such packages only try to compile and package the > libc5 packages if there is a libc5 installed. No, that's a bad idea. A package might silently build incorrectly because a developer didn't have libc5 or libc5-dev installed. Unf

Problems compiling packages

1997-12-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good evening, during compiling re-packaging of some libraries on the powerpc I noticed several problems regarding our libc. On the powerpc - as on the alpha - there is no libc5 package and will never be (I guess). As a result compilation of any library that provides both a libc5 and libc6 releas