Re: linux 2.5.10 and compiling gdb-5.1.1 from source

[Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>]

On Fri 26 Apr 2002, Jurriaan on Alpha wrote:

> so I wanted to recompile gdb.
> apt-get source gdb
> cd gdb-5.1.1
> fakeroot debian/rules binary
> 
> and after a lot of messages, the compilation won't proceed because
> makeinfo isn't installed.
> 
> apt-cache search makeinfo points at texi2html as the only solution.
> If I install that package, I still don't have a makeinfo binary.
> The documentation seems to say that texi2html is even better then
> makeinfo. That won't help, however.
> 
> How do other people compile gdb?

Install the build-depends first with

    apt-get build-dep gdb

Then

    apt-get source --compile gdb


Paul Slootman


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