At 23:02 28/02/2002, Jamie Wilkinson sent this up the stick: >This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: > ><quote who="Rob B"> > > > >8< snip 8< > > > >Here we have an attempt to run autoconf, which fails... > > > >> # Add here commands to compile the package. > >> autoconf -l autoconf autoconf/configure.in >configure > >> /bin/sh: ./autoconf: is a directory > >Which suggests that you don't have autoconf installed. You do have all the >build-dependencies for this package installed? You won't be able to build >the package from source if you don't. > >apt-get build-dep $package
$ apt-get build-dep apcupsd E: Invalid operation build-dep $ apt-get --version apt 0.3.19 for i386 compiled on May 12 2000 21:17:27 but...... autoconf wasn't installed (nothing has needed it until now). Installing it fixed the error, and as usual, another problem surfaces <compile, compile> # don't overwrite any existing config file Installing multimon.conf... make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5/cgi' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5/distributions/debian' apcupsd script installation on Debian GNU/Linux is only supported via the debian package management system. Obtain the contents of the debian/ directory needed to build the package from: http://packages.debian.org/apcupsd Look for a file called apcupsd_<version>.diff.gz and patch it into the top level of your source tree. Then from the top of your source tree you may use dpkg-buildpackage to make test packages. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5/distributions/debian' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/loop/apcupsd-3.8.1.5' install -m 0644 -g root -o root debian/apcupsd.conf `pwd`/debian/tmp/etc/apcupsd install -m 0755 -g root -o root debian/apccontrol `pwd`/debian/tmp/etc/apcupsd touch install-stamp dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_installdocs dh_installexamples dh_installmenu dh_installlogrotate make: dh_installlogrotate: Command not found make: *** [binary-arch] Error 127 <sigh> cheers, Rob -- Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 712 of a collection of 1204 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
