On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote: > Hallo Christoph, > > That's a very good (but evil) idea to write more about installation > requirements. I don't know what you mean, though, by the following note. > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Christoph Schug wrote: > > + A very few packages like jdk-sun require ... > > + compat-libstdc++-6.2 > > If an OpenPKG user chooses to install the jdk-sun OpenPKG package (or another > that depends on libstdc++), then she first has to install the libstdc++ > package (which we don't have yet). The real question is, does jdk-sun depend > on libstdc++? If so, then we need to make a new libstdc++ package, right? If > so, then this doesn't belong with the other requirements information regarding > how to bootstrap OpenPKG.
jdk-sun is based in JDK package from Sun which is available binary only (truely said there's also a source package but this requires existing JDK in order to build). Since this binary is linked against an old libstdc++ library. and we are forced to use a vendor package instead a own one. Furthermore we even don't have any version of libstdc++ as a OpenPKG package and I doubt that we want to have one. In case you really want to have a libstdc++ package we would need different ones links against different versions of glibc. Furhtermore these libs are required to be dynamically linked. This is not just a can of worms (as Ralf would call it :-). This would be *real* nightmare. -- Christoph Schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cable & Wireless Deutschland - Landsberger Strasse 155 - D-80687 Muenchen ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
