Re: [Swarm-Support] Compiling swarm on debian/unstable

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "JL" == John Leuner  writes:

JL> I have tried to compile swarm 2.1.147.20030812 and a CVS checkout
JL> on my debian/unstable machine but I keep running into all sorts of
JL> build problems.

JL> A lot of these seem related to autoconf and automake (and version
JL> problems with them).

JL> Is swarm meant to build on this platform? Is there a list of
JL> required software? 

Yes, it is intended to build on Debian (we have packages for old
versions that worked with Potato, I believe), there's nothing thats
distro-specific in Swarm, at least when building from CVS.

Make sure you're running the autogen.sh script to start the process.

JL> Can I post specific problems I have to this list?

The answer to this question, is an emphatic yes.  There is also a
more technical list for people working directly on the CVS tree.  

Joseph Schlecht of Debian volunteered to package Swarm for Debian back
in Feb, here is the task on Savannah:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=1933&group_id=1837&group_project_id=869

But I don't think he's had time to work on it much recently.  I've
Cc'ed on this e-mail as I am not sure if he subscribes to this list
directly.

Regards,

Alex