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| From: | Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-alt@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-alt] sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p1.ebuild wants rpcgen | ||
| Date: | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:29:43 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1216045755.28200.31.camel@sapc154.salomon.at | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-alt] sys-libs/db-4.6.21_p1.ebuild wants rpcgen by Jeremy Olexa |
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| 1 | On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 07:53 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
| 2 | > Fabian Groffen wrote: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > > with using non-OS-provided rpcgen implementations, because they need to |
| 5 | > > closely match what's currently running. Anyway, if AIX really misses |
| 6 | > > it, I guess we could disable-rpc on AIX... haubi, thoughts? |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > And since rpcgen is part of glibc, Prefix won't provide it either. |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > %% equery b rpcgen |
| 11 | > sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 (/usr/bin/rpcgen) |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Yes, rpc[1] ideally is part of the OS. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | But: One could think of optionally compiling the free implementation[3] |
| 16 | of ONC-RPC[2] for AIX (hack alert!)... |
| 17 | |
| 18 | [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call |
| 19 | [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONC_RPC |
| 20 | [3] http://www.plt.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?id=258 |
| 21 | |
| 22 | /haubi/ |
| 23 | -- |
| 24 | Michael Haubenwallner |
| 25 | Gentoo on a different level |
| 26 | |
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