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author | Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> | 2008-10-07 20:41:41 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> | 2008-10-07 20:41:41 +0200 |
commit | 5b42c812e5f689206f5e3ad4196f17c97ca34415 (patch) | |
tree | 8749ca58cad17257ec4a02c3050edbb3738f98f7 /COMPILING | |
parent | 2ee50e0af732ddd94222ca7cbb120341651b02f0 (diff) | |
parent | 84f711aae1b79d149677791617db633b764e7f66 (diff) |
* doc/apt-cache.8.xml:
- search command uses POSIX regex, and searches for virtual packages too
(closes: #277536)
* doc/offline.sgml: clarify remote and target hosts
(thanks to Nikolaus Schulz, closes: #175940)
* Fix several typos in docs, translations and debian/changelog
(thanks to timeless, Nicolas Bonifas and Josh Triplett,
closes: #368665, #298821, #411532, #431636, #461458)
* Document apt-key finger and adv commands
(thanks to Stefan Schmidt, closes: #350575)
* Better documentation for apt-get --option
(thanks to Tomas Pospisek, closes: #386579)
* Retitle the apt-mark.8 manpage (thanks to Justin Pryzby, closes: #471276)
* Better documentation on using both APT::Default-Release and
/etc/apt/preferences (thanks to Ingo Saitz, closes: #145575)
* fix FTBFS by changing build-depends to
* ABI library name change because it's built against
* Package that contains all the new features
* Branch that contains all the new features:
Diffstat (limited to 'COMPILING')
-rw-r--r-- | COMPILING | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ To compile this you need a couple things g++ 2.8 works OK and newer egcs work well also. Nobody has tried it on other compilers :< You will need a properly working STL as well. - A C library with the usual POSIX functions and a BSD socket layer. - If you OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine: + If your OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html - Refer to the Build-Depends information in debian/control for additional requirements (some of which are Debian-specific) ** NOTICE ** The C++ global constructors do not link correctly when using non-shared -libaries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have +libraries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have not yet had time to devise a work around for it. The correct thing to do is add a reference to debSystem in apt-pkg/init.cc, assert(&debSystem == 0) would be fine for instance. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you contact your vendor and express intrest in a conforming C library. -That said, there are lots of finniky problems that must be delt with even +That said, there are lots of finicky problems that must be dealt with even between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put a shim header file in build/include that transparently adds the required functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the @@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ Current shims: * C99 integer types 'inttypes.h' * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs * rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname. - The more adventerous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those + The more adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those OS's with IPv6 support but no rfc2553 (why?) * define _XOPEN_EXTENDED_SOURCE to bring in h_errno on HP-UX * socklen_t shim in netdb.h if the OS does not have socklen_t -The only completely non-shimed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires +The only completely non-shimmed OS is Linux with glibc2.1, glibc2.0 requires the first three shims. Platform Notes @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ OpenBSD HP-UX HP-UX nyquist B.10.20 C 9000/780 2016574337 32-user license - Evil OS, does not conform very well to SUS - 1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurios warnings + 1) snprintf exists but is not prototyped, ignore spurious warnings 2) No socklen_t 3) Requires -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for h_errno configure should fix the last two (see above) |