[cooker-amd64] Re: ddd problem solved?

[Duncan]

Martin Jungowski [TU Munich] posted
<1075461630.3272.1.camel@Mandrake_AMD64>, excerpted below,  on Fri, 30 Jan
2004 12:20:30 +0100:

>> But that does not mean it works.
> 
> In theory, yes. However as long as Mandrake won't offer a precompiled
> version of DDD linked to their version of their libraries, it won't
> work. Like I said, the other 64-bit version of ddd (either SRPM, gingin
> or Fedora) don't work.

I think you missed what he was saying..  He was saying that a distrib
COMING with a package isn't the same thing as it WORKING on that distrib. 
Getting a package to build is only half the struggle.  Getting it to run
without crashing is a far different thing.  The implication, therefore, is
that the RH/Fedora/whatever 64-bit packages may not even work on their OWN
platforms, let ALONG Mdk's.  They might have shipped code that complies
but isn't stable enough to work well, if at all.

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