Re: Possible issue with glibc compilation

2009-01-18 Thread Pierluca Masala
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Karl McClendon wrote: > One such issue is when building glibc. It fails quickly with awk script > errors. After some hunting I learned that Ubuntu does not come with gawk, it > comes with mawk, which is the reason for the error. After installing gawk > the bu

Re: Package Management

2008-02-28 Thread Pierluca Masala
What about GNU Source Installer? It has the following advantages: it is a GNU program, and it leaves full control in the hands of the user about configure options and ways to build and install. It is focused on installing from sources and it also has a gtk frontend that can be used in BLFS systems.