This one time, at band camp, Mike Pfleger said: > * Vineet Kumar (debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net) wrote: > <SNIP> > > It should work fine. The only reason I didn't suggest it straightaway > > is that Debian only yet has 0.4.2, not 0.4.3 . If you don't mind being > > one minor number behind, using the debian package should be fine. > > Yeah; the yahoo support seems fixed in 0.4.0 to the point where it will > allow me to IM with people I know who use that protocol. > > <SNIP> > > (2) build your own .deb from the sid source package. You should be fine > > downloading the source package from sid and building it locally. If > > there are any dependencies, "apt-get -t unstable build-dep everybuddy" > > should let you know about and get around them. > > I'm trying this, but it still barfs at me, now complaining it can't > find the libtool bits it wants. > > In file included from main.c:55: > plugin.h:25: ltdl.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [main.o] Error 1 > > However; if I do: > find /usr -name ltdl.h > -I get this: > /usr/share/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.h > -which is a bit annoying, to say the least. If I could figure out > where it's looking for it; I could cheat and temporarily put in a > symlink, but that's a bit gross. I've looked at the resulting > Makefile, but I'm just a bit confused by what I'm seeing. Since I've > got that habit of compiling as an unpriv'd user, and then installing as > root, if I'm comfortable with the results of the compile, is this a > potential source of problems? > > I suppose I'll be learning how to build a deb package by the end of the > adventure :) The easiest ways to build a deb package (stop reading if this has already been discussed - I missed the beginning of the thread) are dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot and debian/rules build && fakeroot debian/rules binary. Both of these methods allow you to build the package as a normal user, and both take advantage of all the work the maintainer has done patching Makefile's and whatnot to make the package compile cleanly on a Debian box. I see no practical difference, except the dpkg-buildpackage also creates the source patches for you as well, but the overhead is minimal. Hope I'm not going over old ground here, Steve -- Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. -- Robert Orben
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