On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:54:58PM +0000, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > On 4 Oct 2000 15:22:24 +0200, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:12:53PM +0000, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > >> I've tried compile dpkg on freebsd and atheos. Unfortunately, dpkg is > >> linux-centric. > > > >Umm, probably because we deal mainly with Linux and Hurd. Try sending in > >some patches. We've never used freebsd on other OS's, so people who are > >interested in having it run there should be willing to port and submit > >patches. Do you think gcc got to freebsd by someone who wasn't using it on > >freebsd? :) > > dpkg requires gcc exactly for Linux or HURD. > gcc doesn't work on freebsd, because: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup0/home/dexter> gcc -print-libgcc-file-name > /usr/lib/libgcc.a > > Its output is not canonical. I this dpkg should fallback to default.
Does FreeBSD not have shared libs? -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
