On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:33:07PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > This eventually led me to try and compile a > > new dpkg. > > dpkg is not ready to be compiled without patches, but Wichert > knows about most of the problems. It's best not to touch it. > Why again did you want a new dpkg?
Mostly to see if I could get libstdc++2.10-dev to install without complaining about libc6-dev not being installed. libc0.2-dev appears to have libc6-dev in the 'provides' line, so I figured it was probably a bug in dpkg. It's not a big deal. What I do now is dpkg -i g++*dev libstdc++*dev for the duration of any compile, and then remove them after if I need to do any further upgrades. -- Anyone who sais "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" has never had a dictionary thrown at him.
