[Glastonbury] more wiki

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:26:26AM +0000, tim hall wrote:
> Last Friday 10 December 2004 19:25, Martin Wheeler was like:
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, tim hall wrote:
> 
> Packaging, now there's a whole other story. ;-)
> I have a lot of Debian Policy documents I need to read before getting into 
> anything like that, personally. I have to admit that it's tempting as Debian 
> packages in and of themselves aren't wildly complicated. However, the process 
> of getting certain applications to work within a Debian framework could prove 
> more complex and time-consuming. If it takes anything more 
> than ./configure ... make ... install then I'm stumped!;-] I think I possibly 
> need to learn about makefiles and autotools next - and find some relatively 
> simple examples to start on. Advice welcome. Perhaps we could do a meeting on 
> compiling things from source?
> 
apt-get install automake autoconf autoproject

[This last is a "wizard" that builds a GNU standards compliant project
from scratch :) Knocked programmers for six when I showed them at work]

Andy