Re: -dev dependencies when building debs from source?
Hi Jeronimo!
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> I have built console-apt and gnome-apt from source here, because I
> needed the debs (and that seemed much easier to me than browsing
> ftp.debian.org -- besides that, I like to compile things... :)
>
> Anyway... I found that apt doesn't seem to know about dependencies
> related to -dev packages... The build of console-apt failed once, and
> that of gnome-apt failed twice, I think, because of these
> dependencies. And all I had were missing header files, so I had to
> guess in which -dev packages they would be.
Whie not automated (AFAIK), the build-depends can usually be found
in the debian/control file.
gnome-apt-0.3.9/debian/control:
Maintainer: Apt Packaging Team <apt@packages.debian.org>
Build-Depends: libapt-pkg-dev (>= 0.3.18), autoconf, m4, gettext[....]
[..]
HTH
yours,
peter
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