Re: Fun with upgrades - not

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2016-07-08 14:14, David Kastrup wrote:
> Alexander Kobel <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 2016-07-08 13:44, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > > >   [...]
> > > > > Last week I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04
> > > > > to a more recent version. [...]
> > > > sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond
> > >
> > > Did this, thanks, and now have the following problems.
> >
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > I'm trying to give pointers without having access to the same
> > environment, so bear with me if they turn out misleading.
> >
> > > Problem 1:
> > >
> > > address@hidden:~/lilypond-git$ sh autogen.sh --noconfigure
> > > processing .
> > > Running autoconf ...
> > > autogen.sh: 17: autogen.sh: autoconf: not found
> >
> > Hm. Sounds like autoconf is not installed; it's not listed explicitly
> > in the build dependencies in the Debian package either, so that's
> > probably an oversight by the package maintainer.
>
> autoconf is not normally a requirement when building from a tarball
> which usually contains the autoconf-generated files.  autoconf is only
> needed for building directly from a repository checkout.  I don't think
> that Debian usually does that.

I see. So IIUC, the build-dep target will give you whatever tools are 
necessary to rebuild the contents of the official package locally, which 
might be different from what you want for a custom compilation from source?


Thanks,
Alexander