Re: Help compiling 4.3.0 for 3.1 stable

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Robin Whittle <rw@firstpr.com.au> writes:

> I installed packages dbs (0.34), debhelper (4.2.3), build-essential
> (10.1), debian-builder (1.3-5), devscripts (2.8.14).  dbs is "Doogies
> Build System":

You will almost certainly need to install a number of additional
packages;

    apt-get build-dep xfree86

should take care of that step.

>   /zz/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
>   /zz/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.diff.gz

I would advise additionally downloading
xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.dsc and then running

    dpkg-source -x xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.dsc

which will take care of verifying checksums, unpacking the upstream
tarball, applying the debian patch, and marking debian/rules as
executable.

>   make debian/rules unpacked

>   make debian/rules setup

Your usage is slightly off: either run debian/rules directly (after
marking it as executable if you extracted everything by hand) or else
run

    make -f debian/rules ...
         ^^

to tell make that debian/rules is a makefile rather than a target of
the default makefile.

Incidentally, none of this advice is particularly specific to X, so
I'd suggest directing further questions of this nature to
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org.

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