Re: dpkg minw32

2010-07-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >i looked up "dpkg win32" on google and found a > failed project. so, i tried cross-compiling dpkg myself. i found > that it, too, wasn't going to work, and the reason was that yes, > again: fork and popen are used, to communi

dpkg minw32

2010-07-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
dear debian-pkg, last year i began cross-compiling packages for win32 using mingw32 (installed under wine and also using mingw32-cross). i spent one week fighting with libicu38 and 90 other dependencies just to get one application compiled (webkit). i hunted down a dozen different obscure bits o

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010, Guillem Jover wrote: > The > lpia is a great example of an architecture variant that was a mistake, > and should haver never been created. This is a bit oversimplified; when lpia was created, there were pro