On 2 Nov 2000, Andy Mortimer wrote: > There are a couple of bugs open about svgalib not building on the > alpha. I'm mostly asking for advice here; I could just set > Architecture: i386 and have done with it, but if it's possible to get > it to build, that is clearly ideal! > > I did try, some time ago, but with no understanding of anything > involved, it didn't go too well! Is there anybody on this list who > might be able to have a look at this for me, or shall I just stop it > even trying? > > At the time it came up last, Christopher Chimelis reckoned that it > would be a difficult job with the sources in the state they were at > that point, but I don't know how that differs from their current > state. If forced to guess, I would say they are probably worse! ;-)
Ironically, I was *just* looking into getting this working again (literally...this morning, in fact). I believe upstream is thinking of dropping Alpha support, unfortunately. I *might* be able to hack up some patches to it that maintains the current code status (meaning, a different deb will be needed for each alpha system family type...which is bad). I'd much rather look into some patches that I just dug up that try to make SVGAlib more subtype-independent on Alpha, though. In short, I'll look into it after I do today's woody compiles and fix gts once and for all (meaning today). C
