On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:43:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote > > |> I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile > |> source" to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The > |> process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on > |> how can I compile sawmill in my machine? > > You can get the tar-ball and compile it yourself. The instructions for > doing this at the main sawmill site are fairly detailed. > > http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/ > > There's also an unofficial deb for slink available at: > > http://www.devin.com/sawmill/ > > I've not tried this (and the person who created the package has a > disclaimer on the site about how inexperienced he is in creating > debian packages), but there it is, > > Jim >
I don't recall whether it is sawmill itself or the rep-* packages it requires (or both), but somewhere along the way you need to have $DISPLAY pointing to an accessible X server to build these packages. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
