Ok, on the issue of getting the Compaq Compilers to work on debian, here's what i'm looking at. I have received emails about the scripts i have, that will install the compiler on debian. I got the impression, that this a a fairly urgent issue for some users.
Here is ( my version of a ) plan: Curently, i'm downloading the latest incarnations of the compaq-toolchain, that is ccc, cpml and ladebug. I'll modify my stuff to work with these latest compilers. IIRC, the only problem was with the create-comp-config.sh in the ccc-rpm, which sets up the compiler. cpml will be handled by adam's installer and libots seems failry straight-forward. I'll modify create-comp-config.sh to work on debian systems and supply a patch to the original, once it's done, so ppl will have to re-run the patched version, once the rpm itself is installed. Still being a complete idiot wrt debian packages, i assume a debian-installer similar to the one adam provided for cpml, will be able to patch the create-comp-config.sh script and run the result along with the ususal "debian-magic" required ;-) I think, i'll do it over the coming weekend, since i do have some work today ( btw: trying to convince a customer to buy a fairly large debian-alpha based setup for commercial server usage - very exciting after my years of SPARC/Solaris stuff - hopefully compaq supports my effort ;-) Anyway, two questions remain: 1. is this patch-approach acceptable for The Debian Way (TM) ? 2. will compaq sue the crap out of me, if i distribute a patch ? for the second question, i could use a pointer ( email-adress ) of some compaq official, to whom i could propose this. so, if anybody happens to know somebody who knows...... let me know. Hope this helps. Regards, Thomas Weyergraf -- Thomas Weyergraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.
