Am Freitag, den 15.09.2006, 09:46 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > I am preparing Debian packages for EMBOSS (the European Molecular > Biology Software Suite, www.emboss.org), and I run in the following > problem: > > EMBOSS is shipped and built with its own copy of libpcre. As a result, > the EMBOSS Debian package contains some files wich are also in the > libpcre Debian package, and they conflict together. > > I would like to try to build EMBOSS with the libpcre from Debian, but I > could not figure out how to do. Can somebody give me hints? > > EMBOSS uses the auto(make|conf) system - I do not understand the > difference yet.
I guess, it will be more problematic to begin to change the Makefile.am/.in or configure.ac/.in files in the Debian package, than just making the custom changes to use Debian pcre-package. If EMBOSS compiles with a common libpcre-version, upstream should add the necessary checks for an libpcre installation and prefer this version, instead of the shipped pcre-version. But for you, this will be overkill I guess (you know, where the libpcre-header files are installed, so you don't need such checks). > The files for libpcre such as pcre.h are in the same > directory as the files for a core EMBOSS library. I need to tell the > program to use /usr/include/pcre.h and so on, but I have no clue on how > to do this (I never programmed in C). In short: Change #include "pcre.h" to #include <pcre.h> and see 'man pcre-config' for the compilation arguments (you only need, what --libs tells you in the linking step, IIRC). > Is there a documentation for solving that kind of problem? I beleive it > should be recurrent in Debian... HTH and regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
