Re: [Demexp-dev] And now, what for demexp--dev--0.7?

[skaller]

On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 02:57 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> skaller a écrit :
> 
> > yes, this is more of a problem. I have some friends who
> > I would love to tell "Hey, do 'apt-get install demexp-client' and
> > tell me what you think!"
> 
> Debian packages are available for the demexp client and for the demexp
> server. If you're using Sarge, simply add the following line to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
> deb http://thomas.enix.org/pub/debian/packages/stable/ ./

Recall this is useless for me: I'm running x86_64 architecture.
I can run x86 statically linked executables .. and even
x86 dynamic ones .. provided the required libraries
are available as x86. Debian can't support multi-arch,
and unlike GODI can't rebuild from source either.

So basically I have to build from the tarball, and I tried
that and it took ages and in the end didn't work,
mainly due to poor coding in some of the depended on
C packages (bz2 codec if I remember rightly).

It would be nice to eliminate these codes from the
package and try to use plain Ocaml, or major C libraries
like Gtk (which also can be flakey .. but there isn't
much of a way around that).

In that case I could probably *contribute* x86_64 arch
to the above archive. As it is, I can't even get a working
Ocaml without resorting to a CVS branch.

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>

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