Russell Hires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I checked through that group of postings (after you mentioned this, > I should have checked first), and very little of it actually > revolved around postgresql, that I could tell. They were related, > but not about the actual Subject: line.
Well, they talked about the state of non-US for powerpc, so it was relevant. > I downloaded the 7.1.2 package source and related files, but now I > can't even compile it. The error message I get (by taking the easy > way out) when I do the "debian/rules binary" is : checking for > CRYPTO_new_ex_data in -lcrypto... no configure: error: library > 'crypto' is required for OpenSSL make: *** [config.cache] Error 1 You need openssl (more specifically the libssl-dev package), I believe. I don't know if it's in woody yet. > I've tried various methods of getting the 'crypto' library > installed, and none of them worked. I've found that the 'crypto' > library is variously three different libs, or one. The Build-Depends: for postgresql include libssl-dev, so that's the one you want. > Interestingly, if I do "debian/rules binary" again, I get a > different error message: I'd use "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc", as it runs "debian/rules clean" first for you, too (and not doing this is probably why multiple invocations of debian/rules binary behave differently) > Of course, getting perl5 (which 'apt-get install perl5' or '5.6' > calls 'perl' and 'perl5-base') isn't working, either, because I've > got the newest version, but for some reason doesn't work when I'm > compiling from (dsc) source. Weird. Without knowing more about the problem, I couldn't say anything about it. > What fun this is! Such is life with Debian unstable, or even testing.
