> The source is from a debian source package so I also > tried dpkg-deb -b glibc-2.3.2 First time it said no DEBIAN > sub-dir Well duh. It has a "debian" sub-dir Up cased debian > and tried again. This time says error at line 9 > no package name, tho I didn't write it down. > > So did I miss some essential step or is it supposed to > be this difficult?
apt-get build-dep glibc apt-get source -b glibc should work or, if you already have the build-dependencies and source files downloaded (.orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and .dsc): dpkg-source -x glibc*.dsc cd glibc-* make -f debian/rules build randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/
