Re: libgnome-dev 1.2.x - doesn't compile

[Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>]

Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You can compile the debian source with apt with
> 
> apt-get source -b package_name
> 
> or after getting the source you can use:
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
> 
> in the source directory (the source extracted and patched after
> downloading).
> this command is called by apt-get if you use the -b option.
> If you have troubles compiling the source look at the
> debian/rules file in your source directory.
> There're the commands for compiling the source package.
> 
> After compiling the package source you'll get xxx.deb installable
> packages in the directory which contains the source directory.
> (i.e. one level up in the directory hiearchy.)

Okay, I tried this and it failed. The follow directories are the trouble
maker.

gnome-libs-1.2.13/intl
gnome-libs-1.2.13/gnome-faq

These have no Makefile.in so a empty Makefile gets created which fails
on the recursive build.

Making clean in intl
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gnome-libs-1.2.13/intl'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gnome-libs-1.2.13/intl'
make[1]: *** [clean-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gnome-libs-1.2.13'
make: *** [clean] Error 2

One other thing. I do not have a deb-src to unstable because I thought
it might have even a newer version than 1.2.13 and 1.2 is fine.