On Wed, May 05, 2004, Mike's List wrote:

Dear Mike,

> My system is Debian 3.0 with base installation. I'm testing some
> openpkg packages via compiling and it fails. I then proceed with
> "apt-get install build-essential" to install this package. Once done,
> compiling openpkg packages work.
> 
OpenPKG is very much self contained. That means it uses it's own
development aka build tools. There is of course a chicken-egg problem:
when you build OpenPKG from source you need development tools without
having OpenPKG already in place. There are two options here: use the
tools that come with your OS (if any) or start with a OpenPKG binary
(same or different instance). You picked the first option which is
perfectly valid. The minimum requirements for OpenPKG 2.0 are the
availability of make, tar and cc (not necessarily GNU) where OpenPKG 1.x
additionally needed uudecode. You can reproduce our setup by reviewing
our "Operating System Prerequisites" [1] logs for OpenPKG 2.0 release
engineering.

[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/getfile?f=openpkg-re/osprereq.txt

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