X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/45e8888be58513fb8d2550413fdb37f9624ca6cc..4f51a496d56807c73586220dd736173d7783c8b3:/COMPILING?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/COMPILING b/COMPILING index 5ea5e52d1..93e628037 100644 --- a/COMPILING +++ b/COMPILING @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ I am not interested in making 'ultra portable code'. I will accept patches to make the code that already exists conform more to SUS or POSIX, but 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. +contact your vendor and express interest in a conforming C library. 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 @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the required shims are OK. 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 adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those @@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ Debian GNU Linux 'potato' Debian GNU Linux 'woody' * All Archs - Works flawlessly - - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and docbook2man installed to get + - You will want to have docbook-xml and docbook2man installed to get best results. - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1.