Re: Custom compiled stuff.
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On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Is there a way that Debian can, in some fashion or another, emulate
> FreeBSD's ports tree? IE, allow the person to download source and compile
> from that source while retaining the packaging from dpkg?
>
Well, this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but when I need
something custom built, I'll often download the Debian source packages
(.orig.tar.gz, .diff, and .dsc), use dpkg-source to unpack and patch the
sources, then make whatever changes I need to the source. Then I can just
run 'debian/rules binary' in the source directory and get a customized
Debian package. I usually make a note in the control file that this is a
local build and should not necessarily be upgraded when a new version of
the Debian package comes along.
This works well, for example, when I want to custom compile a dynamically
linked Motif application against OSF/Motif (which I have on my system)
instead of Lesstif (which all dynically linked Motif apps are built
against in Debian).
noah
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