How could I extract the ./configure line from a deb source package?

I am using Ubuntu 5.04. and I want to compile the latest source codes
usng the ./configure line from those stock deb packages.


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On alt.os.linux.debian, in <4326bda5$1_1@rain.i-cable.com>,
"man-wai chang" wrote:


> How could I extract the ./configure line from a deb source
> package?
>
> I am using Ubuntu 5.04. and I want to compile the latest source
> codes usng the ./configure line from those stock deb packages.

man deb
man ar

Not sure how the deb source packages are put together.

ar t <package_name>

will list the members of the archive.

AC

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Pourquoi ton message ne se résume pas au seul texte suivant.
I don't know try to look in other forum or in manual.
try  ar t <package_name>
command wich list the members of the archive and try to see if there is a
Configure file in it.

man man man man man, i know it is really usefull to read manual before
asking something or read/search forum before.
"man deb" it like RTFM and i think those who uses those sentences are only a
bunch of ......

It is only my way of thinking.



"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.invalid> a écrit dans le message de news:
slrndidkjh.2bu.zzzzzz@netkook.invalid...
> On alt.os.linux.debian, in <4326bda5$1_1@rain.i-cable.com>,
> "man-wai chang" wrote:
>
> 
>
> man deb
> man ar
>
> Not sure how the deb source packages are put together.
>
> ar t <package_name>
>
> will list the members of the archive.
>
> AC
>

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<4326daf4$0$1732$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr>, "Rudy Banuls" wrote:

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> I don't know try to look in other forum or in manual. try ar t
> <package_name> command wich list the members of the archive and
> try to see if there is a Configure file in it.
>
> man man man man man, i know it is really usefull to read manual
> before asking something or read/search forum before. "man deb"
> it like RTFM and i think those who uses those sentences are
> only a bunch of ......
>
> It is only my way of thinking.

I see that you are using windoze.

Yet another manifestation of your mental incompetence.

AC

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"Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.invalid> a écrit dans le message de news:
slrndiebi4.17u.zzzzzz@netkook.invalid...
> On alt.os.linux.debian, in
> <4326daf4$0$1732$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr>, "Rudy Banuls" wrote:
>
> <line with non-us-ascii character deleted, along with mime
> headers>
> 
>
> I see that you are using windoze.
>
> Yet another manifestation of your mental incompetence.
>
> AC
>
> --
> http://home.earthlink.net/~alanconnor/
> http://angel.1jh.com./nanae/kooks/alanconnor.html

I only use linux/unix/VMS. I have no more windows. I am a french engineer
specialized in UNIX. You speaks without knowing the subject (quote "I see
that you are using windoze")
I don't want to speak anymore with you, it is useless but try to be more
indulgent with begineer in UNIX like. It don't serve linux community. We
must tell begineer how to learn by themselves but not for simple questions
of very beginner.

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On alt.os.linux.debian, in
<4327fd85$0$27449$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr>, "Rudy Banuls" wrote:

> "Alan Connor" <zzzzzz@xxx.invalid> a écrit dans le message de
> news: slrndiebi4.17u.zzzzzz@netkook.invalid...
> 
>
> I only use linux/unix/VMS. I have no more windows.

This is from your headers:

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670

> I am a
> french engineer specialized in UNIX. You speaks without knowing
> the subject (quote "I see that you are using windoze") I don't
> want to speak anymore with you, it is useless but try to be
> more indulgent with begineer in UNIX like. It don't serve linux
> community. We must tell begineer how to learn by themselves but
> not for simple questions of very beginner.
>

This has got to be troll. No one this stupid could operate a
computer.

Looks like a third-grader's attempt to sound like someone
for whom English is a recently-acquired second language.

Does your Mother know you are playing with her computer again,
little boy?

AC

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>
I have read the manual.

apt-get source package
cd package-...
vi rules

But Ubuntu's rules file is really cryptic. I couldn't spot the call to
./configure...

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On alt.os.linux.debian, in <43296263$1_3@rain.i-cable.com>,
"man-wai chang" wrote:

> I have read the manual.
>
> apt-get source package cd package-... vi rules
>
> But Ubuntu's rules file is really cryptic. I couldn't spot the
> call to ./configure...
>

Hi Chang,

Aren't the default options to configure in configure.ac or
configure.in? Autoconf uses those to create the ./configure
script.

They become "rules" when ./configure creates the Makefiles.

I'm looking at a straight Debian source package, not Ubuntu.

AC


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