Quoting Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been spending the day playing with this. At a rough guess, about > half of base compiles without too much hassle with the BSD libc (the > main problem is usually having to link against the GNU getopt library) [...] > The packages left that are more "interesting" are: [...] > util-linux (Again hardly surprising. Again I'd guess that using the > BSD versions would be easier)
In a fit of sheer insanity, I did "apt-get source util-linux" and transfered the source to my NetBSD/sparc box to try compiling some things. I'm happy to report that "banner" compiles and runs flawlessly! :) Actually, after your previous comment the one I wanted to try was getopt (the command line version). It actually compiles, but issues a warning that "getopt_long_only" was defined implicitly (uh oh), and of course when it tries to link it fails. Everything in text-utils compiles fine, and seems to work although I didn't really test it too much. I'm going to bed now, before I do something really stupid. [For the record, fdisk doesn't compile, so I didn't get the chance to run it... :)] -- GT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dreamsmith.org "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us." - Marcel Proust
