Re: Building Debian Completely From Source

[Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net>]

Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
>> In late 2001, I spent several weekends hand-building quite a large
>> chunk of woody (over 200 source packages).  I found quite a number of
>> serious bug in several packages, including missing Build-Deps, and, in
>> the case of (IIRC) Tcl 8.x, it wouldn't build unless the same version
>> was also installed (due to a shlibs problem requiring the just-built
>> library to be installed for shlibdeps to be computed).
>
> That's a bug in tcl.  It should use shlibs.local.

Yup.  I filed a bug and fix for it at the time, IIRC (it /was/ two
years ago!).


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Roger Leigh

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