Re: How can I build a package from source that require the source of another (library) package?

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote:
[...]
> Pathan is a library that implements XPath functionality in c++. It
> is available both as a separate tarball as well as bundled with the
> Berkeley DB XML sources provided by Sleepycat Software. The pathan
> build script require a path to the xerces source code tree. I have
> tried to find a way to build the pathan library without providing
> the xerces source but failed.
[...]

Can you intead build-depend on libxerces26-dev and give it the path
to the headers that package installs?
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