On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:29:34AM -0400, Alan O'Neill wrote: > Thanks for the tips on SVN -- very helpful!
:-) > When last I wrote, I had begun to think that you and I were working with > one different assumption, and from what you just wrote, it is now > confirmed. The package I have built is not a source package, it is a > binary package. I have compiled GT.M from source in the past, but it > has an interesting twist: To build GT.M from source, you must already > have the binary installed on your machine because somehow the binary is > used to help with the build. (I've always gotten a kick out of that -- > how was the very first version of GT.M compiled? :) Well, this was previousely discussed. You somehow need to have a GT.M installed on the system and then you build the first binary package. For past discussions probably this is the best link: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/thrd2.html#00549 > To continue, I'll need to learn more about building source packages -- > it's something I've never done before. To make it clear: For official Debian we are *only* talking about source packages which are turned into binary packages using the Debian packaging tools which are based on dpkg-buildpackage and its wrappers like debuild, pdebuild or others. A source package consists of the original source tarball and a debian/ directory which contains the files which are needed to build the binary package. That is what we are talking about as "building a package". It is documented in several places and probably this is the best entry point: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ > One thing that does occur to me, though, is that since building GT.M > requires the binary installation, it may be necessary to distribute a > binary package as well. See above the link to the discussion thread on debian-devel list. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100906195940.ga31...@an3as.eu
