Re: Compiling dpkg

2006-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 06:56:00PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Dave Korn wrote: However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is another question. Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin packages aren't issued in debian format... Sigh. He seems to be resolute in his

Re: Compiling dpkg

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is another question. Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin packages aren't issued in debian format... Sigh. He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something useful under Cygwin

RE: Compiling dpkg

2006-09-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 September 2006 01:09, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Dear Sirs/Madams In compiling dpkg I get the following error nfmalloc.c:29:21: obstack.h: No such file or directory Where do I get the obstack.h file from? Wherre do I put it to be able to compile dpkg? You don't. You use the

Re: Compiling dpkg

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: However, whether dpkg will actually do anything useful for you is another question. Debian packages don't work on cygwin and cygwin packages aren't issued in debian format... Sigh. He seems to be resolute in his goal to get dpkg/dselect to do something useful under Cygwin