Re: [Trisquel-users] How to build Debian Experimental source on Trisquel?

[plinuxusr]

Have you looked into debootstrap? It allows you to build a complete GNU/Linux  
system inside of another. I also dont think you use ./configure in this case  
directly, I could be wrong though. Debian/Ubuntu is supposed to have tools  
that detect which packages are needed for building. they are contained in the  
build-essential package.

This page might help:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html
and here:
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian#Building_Debian_packages