On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote: > I've just joined this list, but I see a few times in the archives that > people have tried to build their own X debs. These threads seem to peter > out without any resolution most of the time. > > I'm in the same situation as others who want to do this - a couple of > bugs/features are in the latest 4.0.99.1 version of X, and I want to > take advantage of these without losing the debian-ness of my X > installation. > > I haven't had any success as yet, but I'm hoping that by pooling my > resources with other people who are trying to do the same thing, we can > perhaps come up with a working procedure. > > What I did was as follows (from memory - I may have a filename or two > wrong, as I'm not at the relevant machine right now. Later this evening > I can post a full log): > > # apt-get build-dep xserver-xfree86 > # apt-get source xserver-xfree86 > # cvs -r xf-4_0_99_1 co xc > # tar zcvf xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz xc > # cd xfree86-4.0.2 > # mv upstream/archives/xfree*.tar.gz .. > # mv ../xfree86-4.0.99.1.tar.gz upstream/archives > # vi debian/scripts/patch.apply > (comment out the "exit 1" line - some patches are bound to fail with a > new version of the upstream source) > # vi debian/changelog > (add a new line for 4.0.99.1-0local1 by myself) > # debian/rules binary-xserver > (because I only care about the server) > > The build works for a while (a bunch of patches fail, but some of them > succeed, and it gets into the build part of the process), but fails when > trying to run (I think): > bison -y -d pswparser.y > The error message indicates it's looking for a file called bison.simple > in /usr/share somewhere. The file really doesn't exist. I have the > latest version of bison from unstable installed, and apt-cache search > bison yielded no obvious candidates. > > That's where I get stuck. Any ideas, anyone?
Check bison from today 27 Feb 01, changelog mentions bison.simple missing from a previous upload. Gordon Sadler
