On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:58:44AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > Why is the dash package in core compiled against klibc? It is a package > > installed inside the normal system, so there is no reason to use klibc. > > > > Furthermore, why does the package not depend on klibc? klibc packages have > > to be recompiled with almost every klibc version and there is no way to > > know which packages to recompile unless pacman -Qi klibc shows them. (This > > is another example why not adding dependencies just because they are in > > base is a bad idea). Right now, /bin/dash will not start. > > > > Well, here are some informations : > http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-November/003392.html
Thanks Xavier. When I don't get a single response to a thread, I assume my shit works. > It looks like no one provided any feedbacks back then. Also doesn't it make > sense when building statically to only put the dependencies in makedepends > and not depends? > But if it was built statically, I don't understand why it breaks after the > first klibc upgrade. And apparently neither does Dan, since he thought that > this statically built dash was unbreakable :) Responded to this already- I realized this error and had it fixed locally, but I guess it does make sense that I should have just pushed the rebuild to testing. Thanks for noticing the issue though and fixing it. -Dan
