Re: OS-sympathetic installation (fwd)

2001-02-16 Thread David Lee
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Olly Betts wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Lee writes: > >But the "big picture" is to be able to produce something along the lines of: > > > > # Directories... > > $prefix=/usr > >[...] > > > > # Installables > > %system all > > f 0555 root sys ${l

Re: OS-sympathetic installation (fwd)

2001-02-16 Thread Olly Betts
David Lee writes: >(which particular case happens to be suitable for ESP's "epm" generic >package manager). BTW, in case you aren't aware of it already, the Debian "Alien package converter" may also be worth looking at for inspiration: http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ Cheers, Olly __

Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

2001-02-16 Thread Jeremy Slade
Brian May writes: > > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alexandre> And that's the catch. On some platforms, you just > Alexandre> can't link static libraries into shared ones. Not even > Alexandre> if they're PIC. > > Yuck. > > Alexandre> Conv