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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:16:50 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making.
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> Laurynas, did you have a go at porting rpm too?

I found out that RPM requires few additional libraries
not (yet) ported to DJGPP, so I decided to try dpkg,
which required none. I managed to get executables of
dpkg, but they were totally broken. 

Here comes one disadvantage that DJGPP has library 
functions like fork(), pipe() etc. which always fail. 
I moves meaningful error message from compilation
to runtime.

Laurynas Biveinis