Re: building deb package fails

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:44:10PM -0500, pll@lanminds.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm attempting to build a debian package from the svn HEAD source
> usign the directions outlined in:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=196771
>
> When I run the dpkg-buildpackage command, it eventually fails with
> the following error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsvn_swig_py-1
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> make[1]: *** [swig-py-ext] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/subversion-0.14.5.r3925/build-svn'
> make: *** [install] Error 2

This is failing because of changes that were made to the swig build
system since 0.14.5 was released.

I had a go at updating the packaging at the start of this month, the
attached patch is based on this work, but I've not been able to test
it as I've got an out of date verison of apr installed.

--
Jon
"First things first -- but not necessarily in that order"
                -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who"