Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> i looked up "dpkg win32" on google and found a > failed project. so, i tried cross-compiling dpkg myself. i found > that it, too, wasn't going to work, and the reason was that yes, > again: fork and popen are used, to communicate with tar, bzip2, gzip > and so on. > > this is in direct contrast to dpkg of some years ago, where it used to > be (statically?) compiled with libtar, libz and libbz2. Check again? dpkg 1.1.4 from 1996 (oldest version I have handy) uses the ‘tar’ binary to build and extract packages. And modern dpkg has ./configure --with/--without-zlib and similar options to decide whether to use compression libaries or external compression programs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100709234314.ga14...@burratino
