THANK YOU VERY MUCH Bijan! Good and helpful guys like you make this mlist a friendly learning environment. So newbies will not feel so pathetic and be driven away by some unprovoked harsh words. You set a true and good example to distinguish between a "helpful" respond and a truly helpful one. Thank you, from me and for all newbies like me.
tong FYI. - I've been using Linux ever since RH6.2, and just shifted to Debian recently. - The reason I want to recompile Emacs is that I don't like its Windose scrollbar behavior, and want to restore it to X-windows default, just like what xterm's behavior. I've been doing so in RedHat ever since I lost that feature by default. On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:07:31 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First here's the real answer to the question. There is a document > on the debian webpage called the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide". > It describes the basics of making a deb package. The part you want > is the "quick rebuild" of the "build" chapter at: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-quickrebuild > > "6.2 Quick rebuild > > With a large package, you may not want to rebuild from scratch > every time while you tune a detail in debian/rules. For > testing purposes, you can make a .deb file without rebuilding > the upstream sources like this: > > fakeroot debian/rules binary > > Once you are finished with your tuning, remember to rebuild > following the above, proper procedure. You may not be able to > upload correctly if you try to upload .deb files built this > way." > > And now for the reply to the reply, > >> --- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was trying to compile the emacs from source deb package. The >>> compilation >>> stopped in the middle because of some error. >> >> Well, let' see: >> >> a) Why on earth are you doing this? What could "the kitchen sink" of all >> editors possible *not* have pre-compiled into it that would cause you to >> want to re-compile emacs? The packaged binary works wonders (if you like >> Emacs), and there are a bazillion addons if the core-set wasn't enough for >> you. > > He just wants to. Maybe he wants to add support for mongolian, or compile > in gtk support, etc. > >> b) Since you don't bother saying what the errors were, how the hell can >> anyone help? > > He doesn't want help with the simple error, he can fix the error, he > wants to know how he can resume compilation without it restarting from > the beginning. > >>> If I use dpkg-buildpackage, everything will be started all over again. >>> Which command I can use to start from where I was left? >> >> If you are unfamiliar with compiling applications you couldn't have picked >> a harder application. > > He isn't unfamiliar with compiling applications, he's unfamiliar > with compiling debs froms source debs. > >>> I want to duplicate the error, fix it and continue on. >> >> That statement is contradictory. I suggest you install the binary, and >> stop this idiocy. > > He wants to rerun the compilation from the point it failed, note the > error, fix the error, then rerun the compilation from that point. He > doesn't want compilation restarting each time. > > Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
