Re: netfilter unavailable

[L Moore <ljmoore@wightman.ca>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:09:02AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 05:48:05PM -0400, L Moore wrote:
> > I downloaded the source from etch-m68k for iptables-1.3.6.0
> > but "make build" expects sgml2html and errors out. Any
> > suggestions?
> > Thanks, larry
> 
> Is linuxdoc-tools installed? 
>
It is now. Since I had iptables on this system (whereis iptables) and
(man iptables) I assumed that all the necessary libs etc were also
here. Learning.

> Debian packages list their build-depends. That's usually a good place to
> start when building a debian package (e.g., apt-cache showsrc $pkg |
> grep Build-Dep or look in the .dsc file that was sitting next to the
> source and maybe diff file).
> 
> FWIW, I usually try apt-get source $pkg && dpkg-buildpackage -B 
> to make sure I can build a new package just like the old one before I 
> try messing around with it.
> 
> That or I follow what the maintainer did in debian/rules for
> binary-arch.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Stephen
> 

Thanks for that explanation. Much appreciated.
larry

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