Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:15:26PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > >scsi didn't keep crashing). In fact, I am going to upload X to master > >as soon as I clear the NMU with Branden. > > did you include the Xpmac server, or is there something else you are > supposed to use on a ppc? Both. I include

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Alex Romosan
>scsi didn't keep crashing). In fact, I am going to upload X to master >as soon as I clear the NMU with Branden. did you include the Xpmac server, or is there something else you are supposed to use on a ppc? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | adv

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Alex Romosan
>to be in the /etc/inittab. With the current getty you can't login! >So change it before you reset! yes, i've rebooted the computer quite a few times. but i am using kernel version 2.1.115 (otherwise you can't login, as you noticed). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a para

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > scsi didn't keep crashing). In fact, I am going to upload X to master > > as soon as I clear the NMU with Branden. > > Hmmm, have you my xfree diff from branden? This should go in with a > newer xfree version. No, I don't. Sen

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> scsi didn't keep crashing). In fact, I am going to upload X to master > as soon as I clear the NMU with Branden. Hmmm, have you my xfree diff from branden? This should go in with a newer xfree version. MfG, Hartmut -- Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedr

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> 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 fin

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
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 tr

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Sven
i have to apologize, because i thought the message was from linux-apus mailing lkist. build never worked for me, i think it depend on which debian builder package you have installed. i have been succesfully building m68k packages until now. Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Alex Romosan
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 la

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-10 Thread Sven
not sure how you do that, but normally, compiling a debian package is done as followsd : but all thre files in a directory of your choice (/usr/local/debian ?) you cshould then do a dpkg-source or something similar, don't remember exactly, with the .dsc file as argument. then you have to go t

Re: compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-09 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 04:58:00AM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > i just installed debian on a powerpc, and i am trying to get familiar > with it (the 2.1 kernel, glibc 2.1, etc). i started by trying to > compile some of the packages which are already part of the > distribution, but i am puzzled by m

compiling packages on powerpc

1998-08-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i just installed debian on a powerpc, and i am trying to get familiar with it (the 2.1 kernel, glibc 2.1, etc). i started by trying to compile some of the packages which are already part of the distribution, but i am puzzled by my lack of success. in particular i am trying to compile netbase and i