I have the debian sources for xemacs 20.4-13 and wanted to recompile
it to remove the gpm support. After applying a little filter to the
debian/rules file to get rid of the mule variants:
while(<STDIN>) {
print unless /mule/;
next unless /nomule/;
s/\S*canna\S*//g;
s/\S*[-_]mule\S*//g;
s/[ ]mule\S*/ /g;
print;
}
I compiled it as usual. However, gcc complained about the ndbm.h file
missing. I used locate to find it in /usr/include/db1 and changed the
rules file to point to this include locatation. The compilation
succeeded, however xemacs crashed as soon as I started it in X11 (with
-nw or in linux console it run fine).
I was able to track the problem down to the database library. If I
add the "--with-database=berkdb" option to the configure call in
debian/rules, the resulting version won't crash on my system.
Does anybody has similiar problems after stepping to glibc2.1
(currently 2.1.1-0.2 is installed)? Is there a better way to solve
this problem without correcting the self-detection routines in
autoconf.h? I'd like to compile unchanged debian packages on my
system.
Torsten
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