On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:18:48PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Dont know whether debian-user or debian-devel is appropriate for this kind > of question. Trying my luck here first... > > When I run the configure script of guile 1.8.2+1 on Debian Sid, the > configure script stops with the following error. > > $ ./configure > > ..... > config.status: creating Makefile > config.status: creating am/Makefile > config.status: creating benchmark-suite/Makefile > config.status: creating doc/Makefile > config.status: error: cannot find input file: doc/goops/Makefile.in > > > When asked on guile-user mailing list, I was told the problem is Debian > specific. Hence I am asking here. Is this a bug in guile? > > Despite this problem, the package actually builds fine with > $fakeroot debian/rules build
So, read debian/rules to see what it does differently? The answer seems to be that it applies quite a few patches, and that some documentation has removed due to licensing problems (DFSG). So the .tar.gz is missing the doc/goops/* files and the patches are needed to remove it from the Makefiles. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
