From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dumb question about scons.....
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:27 -0600
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On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists,
>
> I need to use scons or SCons or whatever it is to help me compile some
> code I got from sourceforge.......
>
> I looked around for scons on my box (AMD64 Etch Desktop install) and it
> is not there. I checked in synaptic and scons is in there and has not
> been installed.
>
> I am going to install scons 0.96.92-2 unless anyone else has any
> comments to add on this.
Are you sure you sent this to the correct address? Why do we care
what you install on your box?
Well maybe you don't. But I am not used compiling stuff that would normally
run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark. However if it
works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it from scratch. The
software is called ASCEND and is a chemical engineering modelling progam.
It has been released under the GPL I think. The authors made some rpms for
it and say that you could use something called alien to convert the rpms
into deb files.
But I am interested if I can to make deb package files for it from scratch.
If it worked I would be willing to offer them to be included as a new
package in a future Debian release. I don't know if people would want this.
When I looked in the documentation on building deb packages it seems to
talk about gnu autoconf etc but scons. I worried that the documentation
might be out of date and maybe scons is actually used to make deb packages
nowadays.....
The documentation on the deb packages suggested that you had to become a
debian maintainer before you would be allowed to put a package into the
debian community officially......
I was going to post something about this later. But since you are
encouraging me to contribute to the community so avidly then I might as well
post it now. If I made a deb package could I send it to an existing debian
maintainer for review?
Comments appreciated,
Michael Fothergill
Or do you need to rephrase the question?
> I am going to do scons -Qh to look for build options.....
>
> I am compiling something that usually works in i386 land but probably
> will work in AMD64 land too...
>
> Suggestions on proceeding with this welcome.
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