On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 07:47:07PM +1030, John Pearson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:40:37PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote > > Which kind of leaves me in a bind because it seems to me that I might > > need that -no-68881 flag. :) > > Just a wild guess, but I think this is trying to build a binary > or object for the m68k-based Palm. So, you may need to install > some m68k cross-development tools; try binutils-m68k-linux and > gcc-m68k-linux.
These are very good leads which I will look into. I would think that the rules file would excplicitely ask for them if needed, but we'll see. > > I looked through the debian subdirectories but didn't find any doc on > > build dependencies. > > There isn't, and this can be a problem; it's a good idea to > capture the output of debian/rules to a file, so you can check > for missing libraries and so on Wow. This is darned good advice and it helps. apt-get -s install blahblahblah It works. :) > In this case, it looksa like you're missing a development library; > # zgrep security/pam_appl.h /ftp/linux/debian/dists/slink/Contents-i386.gz > usr/include/security/pam_appl.h devel/libpam0g-dev This is handy, but I don't seem to have th Contents-i386.gz file anywhere (which is, I presume, why you have it tucked under an ftp directory). I guess I can keep one of those lying around somewhere. :) > It's a minor but irritating deficiency in the source packaging > system. I understand that one of the goals of 'dpkg v2' is to add > proper source dependencies. I for one look forward to it! Thanks for all your help! -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://www.jamdata.net/~jjlupa/gpg.asc
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