Re: Embperl fails to compile on Debian 9 (Stretch)

2019-04-17 Thread Nigel Gregoire
No worries! Uou can apply a patchfile using the patch utility, which should be installed already. The file debian/patches/series is probably the order that the packager uses when applying the files. You can apply them all by running this command from the root of the git repo: cat debian/patche

Re: Embperl fails to compile on Debian 9 (Stretch)

2019-04-17 Thread Neil Gunton
Aha! Apparently this is what you need to do: 1. https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libembperl-perl 2. Download the .tar.gz source file (download button on the right) 3. tar xvfz libembperl-perl-master.tar.gz 4. cd libembperl-perl-master 5. apt-get install quilt 6. export QUILT_PAT

Re: Embperl fails to compile on Debian 9 (Stretch)

2019-04-17 Thread Neil Gunton
Thanks very much, Nigel. I sent another reply to the list that got delayed for some reason, but I eventually used quilt to apply the patches (before I got your post, I found reference to that on some webpage or other). It worked fine, and I was able to compile Embperl without errors. It's now worki