I'm attaching a patch I used to get libimobiledevice building on my system. After applying it, you'll need to run "autoreconf -f -i". Personally, I prefer to do this in debian/rules and then have debian/rules clean remove the auto-generated files which are changed by the autoreconf invocation. -- Daniel Schepler
--- libimobiledevice-1.0.6.old/dev/Makefile.am 2011-03-26 16:24:49.000000000 +0000 +++ libimobiledevice-1.0.6/dev/Makefile.am 2011-08-19 16:04:25.000000000 +0000 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lckd_client_SOURCES = lckdclient.c lckd_client_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) lckd_client_LDFLAGS = -lreadline $(AM_LDFLAGS) -lckd_client_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la +lckd_client_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la -lplist afccheck_SOURCES = afccheck.c afccheck_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ msyncclient_SOURCES = msyncclient.c msyncclient_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) msyncclient_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) -msyncclient_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la +msyncclient_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la -lplist filerelaytest_SOURCES = filerelaytest.c filerelaytest_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) --- libimobiledevice-1.0.6.old/m4/ac_pkg_swig.m4 2010-01-08 15:34:39.000000000 +0000 +++ libimobiledevice-1.0.6/m4/ac_pkg_swig.m4 2011-08-19 15:59:44.000000000 +0000 @@ -103,9 +103,12 @@ if test -z "$available_patch" ; then [available_patch=0] fi - if test $available_major -ne $required_major \ - -o $available_minor -ne $required_minor \ - -o $available_patch -lt $required_patch ; then + if test $available_major -lt $required_major \ + -o \( $available_major = $required_major -a \ + $available_minor -lt $required_minor \) \ + -o \( $available_major = $required_major -a \ + $available_minor = $required_minor -a \ + $available_patch -lt $required_patch \) ; then AC_MSG_WARN([SWIG version >= $1 is required. You have $swig_version. You should look at http://www.swig.org]) SWIG=false else --- libimobiledevice-1.0.6.old/tools/Makefile.am 2011-03-26 16:26:17.000000000 +0000 +++ libimobiledevice-1.0.6/tools/Makefile.am 2011-08-19 16:05:41.000000000 +0000 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ideviceinfo_SOURCES = ideviceinfo.c ideviceinfo_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) ideviceinfo_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) -ideviceinfo_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la +ideviceinfo_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la -lplist idevicepair_SOURCES = idevicepair.c idevicepair_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) -I$(top_srcdir)/src @@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ idevicebackup_SOURCES = idevicebackup.c idevicebackup_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) idevicebackup_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) -idevicebackup_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la +idevicebackup_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la -lplist ideviceimagemounter_SOURCES = ideviceimagemounter.c ideviceimagemounter_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) ideviceimagemounter_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LDFLAGS) -ideviceimagemounter_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la +ideviceimagemounter_LDADD = ../src/libimobiledevice.la -lplist idevicescreenshot_SOURCES = idevicescreenshot.c idevicescreenshot_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS)