Hi, Thanks for all of you gave me the help on making a binary from debian source package. I tried the instructions on the source package for gccchecker-0.9.9.1 and the compilation works smoothly but the gccchecker got a segmentation error even for its own simple example included.
My question is: Did anyone ever make gccchecker work in potato? > It's pretty easy, usually. > > 1) Download the source components into the directory of your choice. > There should be either two or three files: *.orig.tar.gz, *.dsc, and > *.diff.gz (not present if it's a "native" Debian package). > > 2) Enter the command "dpkg-source -x <packagename>.dsc". This will > unpack the source into the <packagename> directory, which will be > created. > > 3) Go into the unpacked source directory, and issue the command > "debian/rules build". > > 4) Issue the command "fakeroot debian/rules binary". Assuming that you > have all of the necessary development packages installed, your > debfile will be created in the parent directory. > > If you get any errors about required files/commands not being present, > you can find out what packages you need to install by doing a package > search at the Debian website. Just follow the "Debian Packages" link on > the main page. > > On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 03:15:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A short question: > > > > Does anyone know how to compile a debian source package into a binary? > > -- Min Xu City College of NY, CUNY Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (O) (212) 650-6865 (O) (212) 650-5046 (H) (212) 690-2119