Hi Brian

On 7 August 2015 at 18:38, Brian R Cowan <brco...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> In any event, it's definitely going down a rabbit hole... To get as far as I
> have, I've had to:
> 1) sudo apt-get build-dep motif (Needed to do this first as the next step
> fails without it)
> 2) apt-get source motif
> 3) sudo apt-get install x11proto-print-dev
> 4) cd to the motif-2.3.4 directory
> 5) edit debian/rules to remove the --disable-printing line

This looks good so far.
In order to use the debian/rules file, you can use the 'debuild' command.
See this step in the BuildingTutorial [1].  You may want to look over
the previous steps for more background.

> In classic "learn as you go" mode here. As I have to cross-compile for 32
> bit to test this old app, I added the i386 libc6 with
>         sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

I'm sorry, I can't help you there.  I suggest you try asking on the
debian-user mailing list [1] or the #debian IRC channel [2].

Regards
Graham


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial#Rebuild_without_changes
[2] https://www.debian.org/support#mail_lists
[3] https://www.debian.org/support#irc


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