Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Daniel B. wrote:
>
> > How do you rebuild a Debian package from source _with_ local
> > modifications?
> >
> > The instructions I've seen all extract source (original plus
> > patches) and build in one step, not giving a chance to make
> > local edits.
>
> I frequently do this with couple of packages. For example, I would like 
> to have readline support, history support in gnuplot. So I recompile it 
> myself in a "debianized way". The step-by-step instructions as to how I 
> do it can be found at
>
> http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/04/build-gnuplot-with-gnu-readline-and.html

Thanks.  Unfortunately, those instructions address only changing some
configuration in the debian/ directory, not editing source.


Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded
the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things?

(I think my current state is as if I had done

  apt-get source --download-only xfree86

(I didn't actually do --download-only, but from cleaning up after
trying a couple things I think that's the state I'm in.))




Daniel
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Daniel B.
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