Hello Paulo, This isn't the answer to your question, but did you know that debian packages of sawmill have been built for slink by Devin Carraway, including the latest version (0.21)? They are available at http://www.devin.com/sawmill/ I have used them successfully on slink with october gnome.
Bruce Mobarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sawmill. > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:46:06 -0300 > From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hello, > > I am running slink with october-gnome from http://www.debian.org/~vincent. > (thank you Vincent ! :-) > > I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried "apt-get --compile source" to > grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The process failed (it seems > that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on how can I compile sawmill in my > machine? > > Paulo.