Re: sawmill

[John Pearson <john@huiac.apana.org.au>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:43:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote
> 
> |> I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile
> |> source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The
> |> process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on
> |> how can I compile sawmill in my machine?
> 
> You can get the tar-ball and compile it yourself. The instructions for
> doing this at the main sawmill site are fairly detailed.
> 
> http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/
> 
> There's also an unofficial deb for slink available at:
> 
> http://www.devin.com/sawmill/
> 
> I've not tried this (and the person who created the package has a
> disclaimer on the site  about how inexperienced he is in creating
> debian packages), but there it is,
> 
> Jim
> 

I don't recall whether it is sawmill itself or the rep-* packages
it requires (or both), but somewhere along the way you need to have 
$DISPLAY pointing to an accessible X server to build these packages.


John P.
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