Re: bug in Hugs 1.4 and 1.3c arithmetic (Number library)

[Simon Marlow]

Alastair Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Similarily, we've got an x86 linux box - but do people want libc or glibc?
>   What if they're got sparc-linux?  What if they have x86-free-bsd?

If they have x86-freebsd, they simply do

        cd /usr/ports/lang/hugs
        make install

and when they want to de-install it:

        pkg_delete hugs-<version>

I love FreeBSD :)

Cheers,
        Simon



The original FreeBSD port was by Torsten Teg Grust, the update to the
latest version was by me.

> 
> o Source releases are less problematic but still take effort.
>   eg One more thing that has to be changed if we reorganise the
>   Hugs directory structure.
> 
> o Which package format do we use?
>   RPM and Debian are both popular (there's a debian package but no rpm at
>   the mo).  There's also a FreeBSD "port".
> 
> > And since we're letting one question lead to another...  would it be possible
> > to package the source tar with a unique root directory name?  I.e.  hugs-1.5,
> > or hugs-May1998.
> 
> I'll give it a shot - but this messes up attempts to build 
> automatic scripts which build packages.  We already have problems with
> changing the filename of the tarfile from one release to another.
> 
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