tag 24514 pending thanks Hi,
On Mon, 1998-07-13 at 15:59:34 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: dpkg > > Following patches are included below: > 1) dpkg1.diff > This patch suppesses error output from configure if dpkg is not present in > $PATH This should not be suppressed, I've on my TODO supporting bootstrapping dpkg on new architectures, though. > 2) dpkg2.diff > This is a workaround for old shells, such as /bin/sh from HP-UX 10.20 and > ksh from the same system. Double quotes are not needed around reversed > single quotes, but they can prevent $target_cpu from expansion on some old > shells. This didn't apply anymore, but I've fixed some instances of this problem in the code. Fixed in git and will be included in next release. > 3) dpkg3.diff > #include <stddef.h> is necessary, because dpkg/enquiry.c uses ptrdiff_t > which is defined there. It may be included from other files on other OS'es > but not on HP-UX. Anyway, either stddef.h is included, directly or > indirectly, or gcc reports an error. And this is not needed anymore, stddef.h is now included from dpkg.h. > Unfortunately, above patches are not sufficient to compile dpkg on HP-UX. I > simply don't have enough time to fix everything. If you or anyone else happen to port it to other Unix system, feel free to provide patches. > By the way, it would be a good idea to provide a script which generates all > necessary scripts. I mean something like following: > ============================ > #!/bin/sh > aclocal -I automake > libtoolize --automake --copy --force > gettextize --copy --force > autoheader > automake --add-missing > autoconf > ============================ This can be replaced now by «autoreconf -f -i». thanks, guillem
