On Sunday 25 April 2004 08:14 am, Randolph Chung wrote: > > The source is from a debian source package so I also > > tried dpkg-deb -b glibc-2.3.2 First time it said no DEBIAN > > sub-dir Well duh. It has a "debian" sub-dir Up cased debian > > and tried again. This time says error at line 9 > > no package name, tho I didn't write it down. > > > > So did I miss some essential step or is it supposed to > > be this difficult? > > apt-get build-dep glibc > apt-get source -b glibc > > should work > > or, if you already have the build-dependencies and source files > downloaded (.orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and .dsc): > > dpkg-source -x glibc*.dsc > cd glibc-* > make -f debian/rules build > > randolph Thanks. The last (make -f debian/rules build) did indeed work. Unfortunatly, I think it was going to install it, which I definetly didn't want. However, it stopped short in the test phase because my 2.4.25 kernel is waay too old. (Note irony) Also, when I ran it to see what it would say, it said built on a 2.6.0 system. I think this means it used 2.6.0 headers. Also, I wanted to make a small change and test it. But after the change it wouldn't run, saying build up to date. It obviously didn't go through the source tree and check the dates. So I re-ran the whole business. So then it apparently unpacked the tarball instead using the source tree. So I am back to square zero. Oh yeah, I also wanted to run against the current kernel headers, not the ones I might install next month.
Richard
