Robin Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed packages dbs (0.34), debhelper (4.2.3), build-essential
> (10.1), debian-builder (1.3-5), devscripts (2.8.14). dbs is "Doogies
> Build System":
You will almost certainly need to install a number of additional
packages;
apt-get build-dep xfree86
should take care of that step.
> /zz/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
> /zz/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.diff.gz
I would advise additionally downloading
xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.dsc and then running
dpkg-source -x xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1.dsc
which will take care of verifying checksums, unpacking the upstream
tarball, applying the debian patch, and marking debian/rules as
executable.
> make debian/rules unpacked
> make debian/rules setup
Your usage is slightly off: either run debian/rules directly (after
marking it as executable if you extracted everything by hand) or else
run
make -f debian/rules ...
^^
to tell make that debian/rules is a makefile rather than a target of
the default makefile.
Incidentally, none of this advice is particularly specific to X, so
I'd suggest directing further questions of this nature to
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