Hello Raphael, thank you for replying. Raphael Geissert wrote:
That's what Build-Depends are for: there you specify the name of the packages required to build the package; and of course you can use ORed dependencies, e.g. Build-Depends: foo | bar
i can understand that Build-Depends are considered when a package is built from source using dpkg.
However, if you get the source and do configure && make i don't see how Build-Depends could be considered.My idea is to add a little something in the configure script so as to make a few suggestions when files that we check for are missing. Is this silly/pointless?
-- -- Dionysis Kalofonos