> A little less ignorance and little more tolerance might prove more > helpful to us all.
indeed.... > There is very little that depends on platform recognition. (1) a so, by your own admission, there's no good reason to assume things do not work. of the thousands of packages that we've built on hppa, very few of them have been previously built on this platform. do we then assume that they all do not work? please understand where we are coming from, as porters for Debian we try to get all the software available in the Debian archive to be available for all the platforms that we support (13 at last count, if i remember correctly). sadly, most of the "porting" issues we face are not really because of the platform itself, but because package maintainers either do not follow good programming practices for portability (e.g. assume x86 or alpha -> little endian), or because either the upstream authors or the Debian maintainers explicitly make a package not build on an architecture (but having debian control files that limit architecture settings, or a configure script that dies because it doesn't recognize the platform). These things do nothing to improve the robustness, supportability and of course portability of the software. If we are going to try to port your software, we would rather be spending time tracking down real bugs, rather than trying to figure out what you've put into place to explicitly prevent a package to build. there are much fewer "porters" then there are application developers..... Now, on to technical issues... The build log for mozart for hppa: (http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mozart&ver=1.2.3.20011204-3&arch=hppa&stamp=1013366157&file=log&as=raw) 1. You need to update your config.{guess,sub} files. You can find the upstream versions at http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/ 2. The build log shows that you are using ld to link. This is not portable, you should use gcc to link your executables and libraries instead. randolph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
