Re: debian-devel task?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:56:39AM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > It'd be nice to have something simple to point people at in order to
> > give them a sane environment in which to build packages.
> 
> apt-get install build-essential
> apt-get build-dep <package>
> 
> Doesn't include tools like lintian, but it's the base environment that
> are used by the autobuilders to build all debian packages.

If apt-get build-dep <package> does not ensure that build-essential is
installed, then a bug should be filed against it!!

   Julian

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