W. van den Akker wrote:

Hi!

>>> How about the idea to include the dgtdrv in the Debian
>>> distro?  If yes then also the dgtnix package must be
>>> included... right?
>> Its no problem from my side, it's just that I never did any
>> packaging for debian and unfortunately I've not the time
>> right now to fiddle me into that. I'd happily include any
>> additons that are necessary for this whithin dgtdrv though.
>> If you want to do the packaging, it'd be perfect. If
>> adoptions to the current build system are required, just
>> tell me about.
>>
> The driver is now named dgtdrv.i686.

Right. I build it on my alpha from time to time as well and
I have to distingish the i686 and axp versions ;)

> However if we want go get it into Debian it must be
> renamed to dgtdrv, because Debian has about 11 platforms.

Absolutely no problem. The easiest way is to just switch off
the platform extension in the makefile.

> Perhaps its wisely to create a ./configure where all
> defaults can be put in.

I never did any autoconf-stuff and actually, it is just
overkill. I think just adopting

    PLATFORM := $(shell uname -m | sed -e 's/ //g')¬

to be an emtpy string is sufficient.

> If there is no problem with that idea I will try to make
> it work so you can merge it into the sourcetree.

Feel free of course. :)

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