On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 19:41 +0000, Boylan, Ross wrote: > I am trying to build db4.2 in jessie, although the package is from > wheezy. I only need db4.2-util. I got the source and modified > changed tcl8.4 to tcl8.6 in rules and control. But the build > (invoked with dpkg-buildpackage) fails while running configure with > checking size of char *... 0 > checking for off_t... no > configure: error: No off_t type. > debian/rules:64: recipe for target 'build' failed > make: *** [build] Error 1 There's apparently something very wrong with the test code that autoconf is trying to compile. [...] > Any suggestions? Would rerunning autoconf be likely to help? [...] Something like that. You might need to use autoreconf, or ./autogen.sh, rather than invoking autoconf directly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your sig.
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