building from source after installing Debian packages
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:54 pm, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 03:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: I signed (rdiaz-guest) and was looking around. I could not find the code for building packages (it seems there are no files for the pkg-bioc project which I can access from alioth); is this the Perl script you mention and Egon refers to in his message today to the pkg-bioc-devel list?
$ cat tools/CVS/Root :ext:egonw-guest@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/pkg-bioc So do, cvs -d:ext:rdiaz-guest@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/pkg-bioc co tools
In addition, a couple of questions: to prevent accidentally building packages which might use Goto's BLAS I assume all package building should be done against a non-Goto's version?.
We could try... in general, if Debian cannot fullfil a dependency, it's marked as cannot build in the Perl build script.
Finally, I know no Perl at all (= even surrounded by bioinformaticians I've resisted heroically all efforts to coax me to learn Perl), but I assume that should be no problem, at least in terms of checking that things work, etc.
:) The script is pretty well documented, and Perl is not difficult. Egon