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Re: Running ./configure with "apt-get --compile source"?



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:00:20PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
>> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
>>   I grabbed the source with "apt-get source bind9" and then added
>>   --disable-linux-caps to the configure command in debian/rules and ran
>>   dpkg-buildpackage manually.
>> 
>>   It worked, but it would be nice to get confirmation that this was the
>>   Right Way to Do It.
>
> It was. You can use apt-src to help you manage such local changes,
> although this is quite a new system.

  Thanks for the confirmation, and the tip. I'll check out apt-src.

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