On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:49:12PM +0800, Emfox Zhou wrote: > Thanks for remembering my nick after this half year :) and yes, I'm > from China.
Hi :) > Here's the issue for aptitude on Debian GNU/Hurd: > First, the aptitude hurd version, and more important, the dependency, > is very old and need to be recompiled. But hey, you know, packages > is changing time to time, and since sometime aptitude got a new build > dependency that is called libcppunit-dev, and libcppunit-dev dependency > on QT, so it's not available on Hurd. Right, that is what is blocking an attempt to build currently. > So, currently you could sovle that by building a custom libcppunit-dev > that without QT dependency, simply remove the dep and build-dep in > debian/control of libcppunit-dev and build it, then you'll get the debs, > install it, and build the aptitude packages from source, too. We hope to have Qt available soonish. However, it should be possible to make a non-qt libcppunit and then aptitude available for gnuab for GNU/Hurd users, if somebody wants to work for that. > the other two issues that aptitude use non-portalbe APIs have been fixed, > that's what I did half years ago. Excellent! Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
