Dear all, Forget about what I said on the unavailability of the latest source packages, I was trying to apt-get --build in a directory in which I did not have write permissions [1].
I tried to build the package, but it quickly stops, complaining about the absence of libX11... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LC_ALL=C fakeroot apt-get source --build root Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 16.6MB of source archives. Get:1 http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov unstable/root root 5.09.01-2 (dsc) [1434B] Get:2 http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov unstable/root root 5.09.01-2 (tar) [15.9MB] Get:3 http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov unstable/root root 5.09.01-2 (diff) [678kB] Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s) Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in root-5.09.01 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is root dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 5.09.01-2 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Christian Holm Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture powerpc debian/rules clean dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-arch-stamp build-indep-stamp config.status configure-stamp rm -rf minuit2/src/Minuit-1_7_6/src/.libs/ freetype/src/freetype-2.1.9 # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. /usr/bin/make distclean make[1]: Entering directory `/home/charles/root-5.09.01' Makefile:13: config/Makefile.config: No such file or directory Makefile:24: config/Makefile.: No such file or directory Please, run ./configure first make[1]: *** [config/Makefile.] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/charles/root-5.09.01' make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored) build/unix/makecintdlls.sh clean rm -rf bin lib include \ system.rootrc \ config/Makefile.config \ README/Changelog \ etc/system.rootrc \ etc/system.rootauthrc \ etc/system.rootdaemonrc \ etc/root.mimes \ build/misc/root-help.el \ debian/*.files \ debian/*.install \ debian/shlibs.local \ freetype/src/freetype-2.1.3 dh_clean debian/rules build dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --mandir=/usr/share/man/man1 \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/root \ --cintincdir=/usr/lib/root/5.09/cint \ --etcdir=/etc/root \ --with-sys-iconpath=/usr/share/pixmaps \ --libdir=/usr/lib/root/5.09 \ --enable-table --enable-roofit --enable-ruby --enable-qt --enable-minuit2 --enable-pythia --enable-xrootd --enable-shared --enable-soversion --enable-explicitlink --disable-rpath --disable-afs --disable-srp --disable-builtin-freetype --disable-builtin-afterimage --disable-builtin-pcre --disable-alien --disable-rfio --disable-chirp --disable-dcache --disable-gfal --disable-globus --disable-monalisa --disable-oracle --disable-pythia --disable-pythia6 --disable-sapdb --disable-venus Configuring for linuxppc64gcc Checking for libX11 ... no configure: libX11 (package x11-devel) MUST be installed make: *** [config.status] Error 1 Build command 'cd root-5.09.01 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed However, I aready have libX11: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get install libx11-6 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done libx11-6 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 269 not upgraded. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install libX11-dev Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait libx11-dev est déjà la plus récente version disponible. 0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 269 non mis à jour. and x11-devel does not exist: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install x11-devel Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait E: Impossible de trouver le paquet x11-devel I'll be happy to retry when somebody will tell me what to install... [1] Strangely, the error message says Failed to fetch http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/pool/root/sid/r/root/root_5.09.01-2.dsc, and the package is not visible when I visit the repository with firefox (http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/pool/root/sid/r/root/), although it is downloadable... Have a nice week-end, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
