Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: First here's the real answer to the question. There is a document on the debian webpage called the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide". It describes the basics of making a deb package. The part you want is the "quick rebuild" of the "build" chapter at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-quickrebuild "6.2 Quick rebuild With a large package, you may not want to rebuild from scratch every time while you tune a detail in debian/rules. For testing purposes, you can make a .deb file without rebuilding the upstream sources like this: fakeroot debian/rules binary Once you are finished with your tuning, remember to rebuild following the above, proper procedure. You may not be able to upload correctly if you try to upload .deb files built this way." And now for the reply to the reply, > --- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was trying to compile the emacs from source deb package. The >> compilation >> stopped in the middle because of some error. > > Well, let' see: > > a) Why on earth are you doing this? What could "the kitchen sink" of all > editors possible *not* have pre-compiled into it that would cause you to > want to re-compile emacs? The packaged binary works wonders (if you like > Emacs), and there are a bazillion addons if the core-set wasn't enough for > you. He just wants to. Maybe he wants to add support for mongolian, or compile in gtk support, etc. > b) Since you don't bother saying what the errors were, how the hell can > anyone help? He doesn't want help with the simple error, he can fix the error, he wants to know how he can resume compilation without it restarting from the beginning. >> If I use dpkg-buildpackage, everything will be started all over again. >> Which command I can use to start from where I was left? > > If you are unfamiliar with compiling applications you couldn't have picked > a harder application. He isn't unfamiliar with compiling applications, he's unfamiliar with compiling debs froms source debs. >> I want to duplicate the error, fix it and continue on. > > That statement is contradictory. I suggest you install the binary, and > stop this idiocy. He wants to rerun the compilation from the point it failed, note the error, fix the error, then rerun the compilation from that point. He doesn't want compilation restarting each time. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]