Re: Problem compiling new upstream version, what to do?

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Stan Vasilyev wrote:

> I'm trying to package the new version of xdialog: Xdialog-2.1.2. The 
> upstream tarball doesn't compile on my system. When I run configure and 
> make I get:
>
> RANLIB@: Command not found
>
> I found a way to fix that error by running autogen.sh in the source tree.
> Should I repackage the upstream tarball or email the upstream author about
> this problem?

I'm no DD, but can't you just run autogen.sh and put the difference in 
your .diff.gz like any other patch?  I get this failure, too, so you 
probably should contact upstream about it.

-- Asheesh.

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