Re: dumb question about scons.....
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On 02/14/07 13:51, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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>> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: dumb question about scons.....
>> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:27 -0600
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> On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael Fothergill wrote:
>> Dear Debianists,
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>> I need to use scons or SCons or whatever it is to help me compile some
>> code I got from sourceforge.......
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>> I looked around for scons on my box (AMD64 Etch Desktop install) and it
>> is not there. I checked in synaptic and scons is in there and has not
>> been installed.
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>> I am going to install scons 0.96.92-2 unless anyone else has any
>> comments to add on this.
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> Are you sure you sent this to the correct address? Why do we care
> what you install on your box?
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>> Well maybe you don't. But I am not used compiling stuff that would
>> normally run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark.
>> However if it works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it
>> from scratch. The software is called ASCEND and is a chemical
>> engineering modelling progam. It has been released under the GPL I
>> think. The authors made some rpms for it and say that you could use
>> something called alien to convert the rpms into deb files.
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>> But I am interested if I can to make deb package files for it from
>> scratch. If it worked I would be willing to offer them to be included
Ah, now I understand.
But there is already a scons package in amd64. Is it not built with
the options you want?
http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/scons
>> as a new package in a future Debian release. I don't know if people
>> would want this. When I looked in the documentation on building deb
>> packages it seems to talk about gnu autoconf etc but scons. I worried
>> that the documentation might be out of date and maybe scons is actually
>> used to make deb packages nowadays.....
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>> The documentation on the deb packages suggested that you had to become a
>> debian maintainer before you would be allowed to put a package into the
>> debian community officially......
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>> I was going to post something about this later. But since you are
>> encouraging me to contribute to the community so avidly then I might as
>> well post it now. If I made a deb package could I send it to an
>> existing debian maintainer for review?
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>> Comments appreciated,
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