problems building debian packages

Jiann-Ming Su js290 at bellsouth.net
Mon Jul 5 15:00:28 UTC 2004


I'm running debian sarge on my alpha platform.  I've downloaded the
squeak debian packages using "apt-get source squeak", which downloads
squeak-3.7b5.  I try to build the package with dpkg-buildpackage but
get the following errors:

# dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is squeak
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1:3.7b5-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Lex Spoon <lex at debian.org>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is alpha
debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
rm -rf build
dh_clean -a
rm -rf debian/squeak-vm debian/inisqueak
dpkg-source -b squeak-3.7b5
dpkg-source: building squeak using existing squeak_3.7b5.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: building squeak in squeak_3.7b5-1.diff.gz
dpkg-source: building squeak in squeak_3.7b5-1.dsc
debian/rules build
dh_testdir
mkdir build
(cd platforms/unix/config/; make)
make[1]: Entering directory
`/root/squeak-3.7b5/platforms/unix/config'
./mkacinc > acplugins.m4
        + ../vm-display-Quartz/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm-display-X11/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm-display-fbdev/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm-sound-MacOSX/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm-sound-NAS/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm-sound-OSS/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm-sound-Sun/acinclude.m4
        + ../vm/acinclude.m4
        + ../plugins/B3DAcceleratorPlugin/acinclude.m4
        + ../plugins/Mpeg3Plugin/acinclude.m4
        + ../plugins/ObjectiveCPlugin/acinclude.m4
        + ../plugins/PseudoTTYPlugin/acinclude.m4
        + ../plugins/SqueakFFIPrims/acinclude.m4
        + ../plugins/XDisplayControlPlugin/acinclude.m4
aclocal
autoconf
configure.ac:134: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_NM
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:147: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
configure.ac:148: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/squeak-3.7b5/platforms/unix/config'
make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 2


Jiann-Ming Su
"Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on
 				   ontological empiricism."  --Peter Griffin




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