On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:15:39PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Its a little confusing since apt-get is supposed to be getting all > dependancy stuff. It looks like it is too, but then it fails. > > dpkg-source: extracting vim in vim-6.0.226 > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is vim > dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 6.0.226-1 > dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> > dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgpmg1-dev > dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. > dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.) > Build command 'cd vim-6.0.226 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. > E: Child process failed apt-get satisifies binary dependencies, not build dependencies! YOU have to ensure that the build dependencies are satisfied prior to building the package. Fortunately, since the build dependencies are declared, this isn't too tough. There may be a tool which satisifies the build-dependencies for you; I don't know of one though. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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