Re: Recompile source after error

From: * Tong* (sun_tong_001_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/08/04

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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:09:35 -0400

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH Bijan!

    Good and helpful guys like you make this mlist a friendly
    learning environment. So newbies will not feel so pathetic and be driven
    away by some unprovoked harsh words. You set a true and good example to
    distinguish between a "helpful" respond and a truly helpful one. Thank
    you, from me and for all newbies like me.

    tong

    FYI.

    - I've been using Linux ever since RH6.2, and just shifted to Debian
    recently.

    - The reason I want to recompile Emacs is that I don't like its Windose
    scrollbar behavior, and want to restore it to X-windows default, just like
    what xterm's behavior. I've been doing so in RedHat ever since I lost that
    feature by default.

    On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:07:31 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:

    > Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> writes:
    >
    > First here's the real answer to the question. There is a document
    > on the debian webpage called the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide".
    > It describes the basics of making a deb package. The part you want
    > is the "quick rebuild" of the "build" chapter at:
    >
    > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html#s-quickrebuild
    >
    > "6.2 Quick rebuild
    >
    > With a large package, you may not want to rebuild from scratch
    > every time while you tune a detail in debian/rules. For
    > testing purposes, you can make a .deb file without rebuilding
    > the upstream sources like this:
    >
    > fakeroot debian/rules binary
    >
    > Once you are finished with your tuning, remember to rebuild
    > following the above, proper procedure. You may not be able to
    > upload correctly if you try to upload .deb files built this
    > way."
    >
    > And now for the reply to the reply,
    >
    >> --- * Tong* <sun_tong_001@yahoo.com> wrote:
    >>> Hi,
    >>>
    >>> I was trying to compile the emacs from source deb package. The
    >>> compilation
    >>> stopped in the middle because of some error.
    >>
    >> Well, let' see:
    >>
    >> a) Why on earth are you doing this? What could "the kitchen sink" of all
    >> editors possible *not* have pre-compiled into it that would cause you to
    >> want to re-compile emacs? The packaged binary works wonders (if you like
    >> Emacs), and there are a bazillion addons if the core-set wasn't enough for
    >> you.
    >
    > He just wants to. Maybe he wants to add support for mongolian, or compile
    > in gtk support, etc.
    >
    >> b) Since you don't bother saying what the errors were, how the hell can
    >> anyone help?
    >
    > He doesn't want help with the simple error, he can fix the error, he
    > wants to know how he can resume compilation without it restarting from
    > the beginning.
    >
    >>> If I use dpkg-buildpackage, everything will be started all over again.
    >>> Which command I can use to start from where I was left?
    >>
    >> If you are unfamiliar with compiling applications you couldn't have picked
    >> a harder application.
    >
    > He isn't unfamiliar with compiling applications, he's unfamiliar
    > with compiling debs froms source debs.
    >
    >>> I want to duplicate the error, fix it and continue on.
    >>
    >> That statement is contradictory. I suggest you install the binary, and
    >> stop this idiocy.
    >
    > He wants to rerun the compilation from the point it failed, note the
    > error, fix the error, then rerun the compilation from that point. He
    > doesn't want compilation restarting each time.
    >
    > Bijan 

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