You appear to have skimmed over my explanations rather quickly. Your main disagreement seems to concern our refusal to recognize a platform not officially supported. I have explained some of our reasons.
> 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 I understand and, believe me, I sympathize greatly. I can only beg for a similar understanding of where _we_ are coming from and of the fact that Mozart is an atypical piece of software in its scope and complexity. > 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. Not exactly, but I see what you are referring to. ld was just the default because the platform was not recognized. Your suggestion is very linux specific. We need a command for creating a shared object library: this is not just for building the system, but is also needed after deployement for creating native functors. hmm... of course, if we know we are building and deploying on Linux, we could guess gcc -shared instead, but then this is exactly what we do when the platform is recognized as linux*. This command is different on every platform. This is one of the few places where we cannot do without a case distinction according to the platform. Cheers, -- Dr. Denys Duchier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forschungsbereich Programmiersysteme (Programming Systems Lab) Universitaet des Saarlandes, Geb. 45 http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier Postfach 15 11 50 Phone: +49 681 302 5618 66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Fax: +49 681 302 5615 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
