On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:40:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc > > cd foo_version > > debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc > > > > Marcus > > Thanks - I appreciate it. :) The output of dpkg-buildpackage even showed > how to call aclocal to get things started, and tell me that I gnu gettext, > which I didn't have was needed.
Ah, yes, this reminds me of a problem that we all would like a solution for. Currently, Debian has no source dependency, this means, there is no way dpkg can tell you that you need gettext and so on. In a later source format, we'll most certainly implement this... Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
