On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:39:48PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: |dpkg should work fine on SunOS >= 5.6 (and probably on older versions, too, |but I don't know if anyone tried that recently), and some HP-UX and IRIX |versions. I've heard rumours about it working on Digital Unix 4 (Ultrix or |whatever)...
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 06:20:43PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: |dpkg compiles fine in IRIX, HP-UX, SunOS and Solaris. You might have |to patch start-stop-daemon, the current implementation does not handle |all OSes but that should be really easy. dselect will compile on any |system with a recent ncurses. I know for sure that apt works on |Solaris machines as well, I'm not aware of people having used it on |any other systems but I see no reason why it should not work. Thank you both for your replies - now I know it's more likely to be my environment that's not working rather than problems with the code ... :) For the record, autoconf had been complaining about not being able to work out the size of unsigned ints and longs, as well as a number of include files being missing ... include files shouldn't be too hard to figure out, however I must admit to being a little stumped as to how to fix the sizing problems ... would we require a particular version of gcc? |> Should I be talking to anyone in particular? Are there other tools about |> that I might not be aware of? | |You might not be able to use fakeroot to build packages. You will |probably need GNU make, GCC, GNu tar and probably a few other |GNU tools to build everything. hmmm ... not so worried about not having fakeroot, but we have everything else you mention there ... Thanks again for the pointers, Malcolm -- /\ The Fulcrum Consulting Group Malcolm Herbert - Consultant /\O\ Professional Services For Operation [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /\ Of A Networked Computing Environment ph: +61-3-9621-2100 /o | \ 8/628 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia fx: +61-3-9621-2724
