At 2:25 pm, Tuesday, February 11 2003, Michael Lake mumbled:
> How do I make a deb package from an already configured and linked
> binary? I dont need signed packages and I dont want a cleaned out tree
> afterwards so I used dpkg-buildpackage -uc from the man page)
> I made it from within the vim directory created from 'apt-get source
> vim' so it has the deb control files all there.
>
You have the source, so you want to edit the debian/rules files (which
dpkg-buildpackage uses), so it will build a motif front-end. Keep in mind
that you should *not* build Debian packages as root, but use
'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us'.
Cheers,
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Steve
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