Dan Kegel wrote: > On 1/23/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Fix the broken packages and send the fixes upstream. >>>That's what I do. >> >>And for dead, slow, incompetent, or otherwise uncooperative upstreams? I don't >>think that's what he had in mind. > > I still try to fix 'em right and make the patches available.
Yeah... while this should be the ultimate solution, sometimes this isn't practical. Maintaining a patch against the build system because a hostile upstream doesn't want to include it is no fun. It also doesn't work for 3rd party packages, which is why I'm looking for another solution. But yes, I see your point. :-) > I know what you mean, though. Python, for instance, > is incredibly difficult to cross-compile, partly because > they ditched autoconf and replaced it with a setup script > written in Python that had to be executed by the same Python > you're trying to build. That knot took me a month to unsnarl. > Fortunately, Guido works near me, I think I can shame him > into fixing that... Ouch... chicken-and-egg problem anyone? That's something that definately should be looked at. (but not relevant to distcc ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.'
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