(Random thought to maintainers - should the nondebbin go somewhere a little more findable? I know it gets built, but where does it end UP?)
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 04:06:42PM -0600, Alexis Denis wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't find a dpkg program for linuxppc which wasn't in the .deb > form (how can I undeb it if I don't have dpkg). So I decided to compile > it. You can undeb it using ar and tar: ar x dpkg_1.4.0.31_powerpc.deb data.tar.gz tar xzf data.tar.gz > I downloaded the tar ball of the source code for dpkg from debian.org > but there is no > configure file or any of the files that usually go with it and the > INSTALL file says there should be one. Am I missing something here? The configure is indeed not there. Look in debian/rules for an example of how to build it; it should go more or less like this: debian/rules build Dan
