Re: pbuilder and configure
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:03:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> writes:
>
> > If I understand correctly it is recommended to use pbuilder for
> > packaging and I've done so when I updated packages recently. Then I got
> > a bug report that a nice feature was suddenly lost and I found that
> > configure script failed to find out very common applications because
> > pbuilder didn't install them.
>
> > I added necessary applications to Build-Depends for the moments but I'd
> > like to know what is a decent (not to say the best) way to handle this
> > problem?
>
> What you've encountered is something that people mostly consider a feature
> of pbuilder. If you didn't have the package build prerequisites listed in
> Build-Depends, those features weren't available on any platform other than
> the one where you built the packages originally either. pbuilder behaves
> (mostly) like the buildd network, so you get the same behavior that users
> of other platforms would get.
Yes, I know it's a feature of pbuilder and I understand a problem
in other platform than where I built. That's why I uploaded a fixed
version before I asked the question here.
(Sorry my English was so inadequate.)
> The solution is indeed to have a proper Build-Depends.
>
> Now, on the question of how to figure out what a proper Build-Depends is,
> various people have different techniques. There are some scripts using
> strace on configure floating around, for example. I personally prefer to
> just read the upstream configure.ac file and see what it looks for.
Okay, so basically I did a correct fix ;-)
One additional question. In case MTA, for example, there are
many candidates including virtual package for Build-Depends.
I guess "exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent"
will be acceptable. Is this okay?
Regards, 2007-9-19(Wed)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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