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Re: lame and Debian packages



On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:08:36AM +0900, marshal@h9.dion.ne.jp wrote:
> >>>>> "stan" == stan  <stanb@awod.com> writes:
> 
>     stan> I found the lame source on SourceFoorge (what a great
>     stan> resource!), and when I unpacked it, I discovered that it had
>     stan> a debbian subdorectory. So here is the question.
> 
> as root, try, from the source packaged base directory,
  ^^^^^^^
> i.e. lame-xx.yy.zz or whatever it might be, "debian/rules binary".

Generally speaking, do as little as possible as root. You don't need
root privileges to build Debian packages at all; just install fakeroot
and run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us' (or 'debian/rules build;
fakeroot debian/rules binary' if you prefer').

> But first have a dig around the debian directory and look for the
> control file.  In that file, you might see a line starting with Build
> depends: or something like that.  It's probably a good thing to have 
> those dependancies met before trying to build the binary.

Yes, and the dependencies of the 'build-essential' package too.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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