Re: Compile Error with slrn 0.9.8.lpl2?

* Troy Piggins ([email protected]) wrote [070723 11:33]:

> > >  I am trying to compile the following file:

> > > slrn_0.9.8.1pl2~cvs20070125.orig.tar.gz

> > > from the Debian ftp site:

> > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/slrn/

> > > But I get the following errors in compile.log:

[ .. snip ]

> I'm trying to install the cvs version, saw this email and thought
> it might solve problems I'm having.  However I couldn't find the
> soft links you refer to:

Although you seem to have solved your problems I just want to make
this clear: The problems with the soft links only exists in the
debian tarball not in the CVS.

Quote from a post from Ralf Widenhues ten days ago:

| The problem is that whoever created the tarball did not use "make
| dist" to create it; that would have converted the symlinked files
| to copies of the files. It would have also prevented the tarball
| from containing files like config.log and autom4te.cache contents
| which need not be packaged.

Cheers,

 Thomas

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