Re: Sources consisting of multiple tarballs

1998-10-16 Thread Stuart Lamble
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote: The bootstrap compiler is distributed (mostly) as assembler source, so they're clearly platform dependant. The sources for the rest of the system are distributed as Modula 3 source code, so they're clearly platform

Re: Sources consisting of multiple tarballs

1998-10-16 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:26:38PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote: Couldn't you extract the arch dep parts in different subdirectories and move them to the correct place in the debian/rules file just before building? So you

Re: Sources consisting of multiple tarballs

1998-10-16 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:26:38PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote: Doing things this way would entail a new source package each time a new architecture is bootstrapped. Probably the cleanest way overall, though, when all's said and done.. and no doubt Guy (or whoever's currently maintaining the

Sources consisting of multiple tarballs

1998-10-10 Thread Stuart Lamble
Simple (conceptually) problem: I'm working on packaging the pm3 Modula 3 distribution for Debian, and have run into a problem. There are two tarballs that are available for this: the bootstrap compiler, and the sources for the rest of the system. Once M3 is up and running, you can generate a

Re: Sources consisting of multiple tarballs

1998-10-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote: The bootstrap compiler is distributed (mostly) as assembler source, so they're clearly platform dependant. The sources for the rest of the system are distributed as Modula 3 source code, so they're clearly platform _in_dependant.