> >> Well, there is at least one other option: You can grab the source and > >> build it yourself. People here can help you with that. > > > > Hmm, source will be a mess and complex. > > Not necessarily. The tools have matured so much over the last 20 years, > most of the complexity is handled automatically by the configure script. > > > Won't v0.133 require latest > > versions of dependencies? > > Well, that is possible, but may not be the case (it should only require a > version of a given dependency whose functionality it really needs). The > only way to find out is to give it a try. If you do, remember that if > configure says you're missing some library, it may be that you just need > the corresponding '-dev' package, and synaptic will show you right away > if that's the case and offer to install it (and its dependencies) for > you. But if you find that synaptic shows only a version that is older > than pan is asking for, then yes, things do become complex.
Just for kicks, I tried it: $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking for gcc... gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for localtime_r... yes checking for close... yes checking for tr1/unordered_set... yes checking whether the compiler implements namespaces... yes checking whether the compiler has ext/hash_set... yes checking for gawk... (cached) gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking errno.h usability... yes checking errno.h presence... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes ./configure: line 5219: intltool-update: command not found checking for intltool >= 0.40.6... found configure: error: Your intltool is too old. You need intltool 0.40.6 or later. $ apt-cache search intltool intltool-debian - Help i18n of RFC822 compliant config files intltool - Utility scripts for internationalizing XML $ apt-cache show intltool Package: intltool Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Jordi Mallach <jo...@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 0.41.1-1 Provides: xml-i18n-tools Depends: gettext (>= 0.10.36-1), patch, automake | automaken, perl (>= 5.8.1), libxml-parser-perl, file Filename: pool/main/i/intltool/intltool_0.41.1-1_all.deb Size: 103582 MD5sum: 66bbbacd58da43ef58b0e88b21eb9d32 SHA1: 338bb4444ef7389dfab03c7e3bca397c0f29ea04 SHA256: 95d9eba1b5f88d3a3d65d395a180d024a2792619597f51579e3faed895760b52 Description: Utility scripts for internationalizing XML Automatically extracts translatable strings from oaf, glade, bonobo ui, nautilus theme and other XML files into the po files. . Automatically merges translations from po files back into .oaf files (encoding to be 7-bit clean). The merging mechanism can also be extended to support other types of XML files. Tag: devel::i18n, implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::converting, works-with-format::xml DOH! :( -- Quote of the Week: "When I was five years old, I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh." --Salvadore Dali /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then please kindly use Ant nickname ( ) and AQFL URL/link. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
