[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] extras repository

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:17 -0600, Levi Bard wrote:
> > I know there is good reason for that (so everybody can rebuild it) but
> > this puts additional burden to package maintainers. I just uploaded
> > scummvm binary deb but have to remove it if this is requirement. I don't
> > have time to package also tremor, libmad and limbpeg so you can rebuild
> > it properly. Also scummvm build process currently crashes with internal
> > compiler error in Kyrandia engine and one file must be build with
> > different compiler flags by hand. I know this is specific issue (which
> > will probably go away with next compiler) but still there are the
> > dependencies and others may have other reasons why rebuilding directly
> > from source doesn't work or isn't easy.
> 
> I have a similar issue with xmame.  It relies on semi-extensive
> makefile customization for each arch/cpu/set of prefs, and it would be
> less than fun to script this for an automated build.

Yet, Ubuntu packages it.

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