Re: [SLUG] Debian source package fails at build

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
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>Here we have an attempt to run autoconf, which fails...
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>> # Add here commands to compile the package.
>> autoconf -l autoconf autoconf/configure.in >configure
>> /bin/sh: ./autoconf: is a directory

Which suggests that you don't have autoconf installed.  You do have all the
build-dependencies for this package installed?  You won't be able to build
the package from source if you don't.

apt-get build-dep $package

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