apt 0.6.46.4 review

apt is the Debian package manager. To compile this you need a couple things: - A working POSIX system with working POSIX gcc, g

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 1755K Developer: APT Development Team

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apt is the Debian package manager.

To compile this you need a couple things:

- A working POSIX system with working POSIX gcc, g++, make (GNU), ar, sh, awk and sed in the path
- GNU Make 3.74 or so, -- normal UNIX make will NOT work
* Note 3.77 is broken.
- A working ANSI C++ compiler, this is not g++ 2.7.* g++ 2.8 works OK and newer egcs work well also. Nobody has tried it on other compilers :< You will need a properly working STL as well.
- A C library with the usual POSIX functions and a BSD socket layer. If you OS conforms to the Single Unix Spec then you are fine:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/index.html
- Refer to the Build-Depends information in debian/control for additional requirements (some of which are Debian-specific)

** NOTICE **

The C++ global constructors do not link correctly when using non-shared libaries. This is probably the correct behavior of the linker, but I have not yet had time to devise a work around for it. The correct thing to do is add a reference to debSystem in apt-pkg/init.cc, assert(&debSystem == 0) would be fine for instance.