Hi

On 11 July 2012 15:25, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2012-07-11 15:13, Jan Groenewald wrote:
> > It's too hard. Sage fails to compile.
> > I spent some trying this, and got stuck on too many
> > library errors in too many different components of Sage.
> How does this build Sage?  Clearly it doesn't just do "make", but then
> what does it do?
>

debuild, which calls about a hundred dh_* commands.

I don't profess to understand or know all of those. I guess that is why I
didn't finish.
This link shows a high level breakdown of what debuild does:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html#completebuild


Regards,
Jan


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