* "John" == John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com> wrote:
John> As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian
John> stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here.
No prob.
$ ls
mc_4.5.42-3.diff.gz mc_4.5.42-3.dsc mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg-source -x mc_4.5.42-3.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting mc in mc-4.5.42
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh_testdir
AWK="awk" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" \
[...]
Ciao,
Martin