Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:40:13PM -0700, ninjaz@www.webexpress.com wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc
> > cd foo_version
> > debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc
> >
> > Marcus
>
> Thanks - I appreciate it. :) The output of dpkg-buildpackage even showed
> how to call aclocal to get things started, and tell me that I gnu gettext,
> which I didn't have was needed.
Ah, yes, this reminds me of a problem that we all would like a solution for.
Currently, Debian has no source dependency, this means, there is no way dpkg
can tell you that you need gettext and so on.
In a later source format, we'll most certainly implement this...
Marcus
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