Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote: > > Hi, > > You can compile the debian source with apt with > > apt-get source -b package_name > > or after getting the source you can use: > > dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b > > in the source directory (the source extracted and patched after > downloading). > this command is called by apt-get if you use the -b option. > If you have troubles compiling the source look at the > debian/rules file in your source directory. > There're the commands for compiling the source package. > > After compiling the package source you'll get xxx.deb installable > packages in the directory which contains the source directory. > (i.e. one level up in the directory hiearchy.)
Okay, I tried this and it failed. The follow directories are the trouble maker. gnome-libs-1.2.13/intl gnome-libs-1.2.13/gnome-faq These have no Makefile.in so a empty Makefile gets created which fails on the recursive build. Making clean in intl make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gnome-libs-1.2.13/intl' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gnome-libs-1.2.13/intl' make[1]: *** [clean-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gnome-libs-1.2.13' make: *** [clean] Error 2 One other thing. I do not have a deb-src to unstable because I thought it might have even a newer version than 1.2.13 and 1.2 is fine.
