Compiling 1.8.12 on debian

[Martin Wolters]

Hi Derrick, 

wonderful! This is/was an excellent help. Thanks so much. If I had asked my 
question three days ago I would have saved hours of trying. :-( This is easy 
and works like a charm. 

Adding -enable-hbci to the rules file was all that was left for me to do. Of 
course, I had already installed all the aqbanking stuff.

Thanks again ... and while I am already into thanking people now: Thanks for 
gnucash! Its great. 

-M

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:37 am, Derrick Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:31:28AM +0100, Martin Wolters wrote:
> [...]
>
> | ( BTW: How do I figure out which configure options the official debian
> | package used? Sorry, I am a Debian-Newbie )
>
> Here is what I would do in your place:
>
>     1) be sure you have the necessary build tools installed:
>         # aptitude install build-essential fakeroot
>
>     2) be sure you have all of the build dependencies installed
>         # apt-get build-dep gnucash
>
>     3) make sure you have the proper deb-src lines in
>     /etc/apt/sources.list, for example
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>
>     4) obtain the source for gnucash
>         # apt-get source gnucash
>
> By obtaining the source with apt you will have the source that was
> used to build the debian package.  Sometimes the debian maintainers
> modify it for a variety of reasons.
>
> In the source directory you will find a directory named 'debian'.
> This directory contains all of the debian-specific additions used in
> building the debian package.  Start with the file 'rules'.  The
> 'rules' file is usually a make file, and it defines how the package is
> built.  There you can find the configure invocation used in creating
> the package.
>
> What I would do to customize it is to edit the rules file to change
> the configure options to suit.  Also add a new entry at the top of the
> debian/changelog file.  Then run 'fakeroot ./debian/rules binary' to
> build your custom version of the package.
>
> HTH,
> -D

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