On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:39:29PM -0300, Lalo Martins wrote: > Doesn't the sparc port have an autocompiler? I'm finding it > very annoying that a lot of packages simply aren't available > (xanim, gxanim) and others are lagging behind (python). If > there isn't an autocompiler, what do we need to do to set one up?
There is one, and it is producing binaries daily, but infortunately not all of the programs build without error, and it is very difficult to go through them all. Please feel free to visit http://marcus.debian.net/~buildd for a list of statistics on the build daemon. > BTW, Netscape and XF86Setup/xf86config are probably the most > FA of FAQs for debian-sparc. Couldn't they be added to the port > page? And couldn't someone upload a binary-sparc package of > netscape, doesn't matter which version, somewhere? We cannot, simply because it isn't on netscape's ftp server any longer which means we can't distribute it anymore. XF86 3.3.5 is in the potato archive. Ben
