On Monday 17 April 2006 06:04, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> I've been having problems with building cow. I've tried this with OSX
> and ubuntu dapper, and have experienced the same problem, so it's
> probably a bug in the build process.

Have you looked at the debian/rules file in the package that available from 
here:

ftp://ftp.real-time.com/linux/real-time/pool/non-free/n/netrek-client-cow

Quick check using breezy shows it compiles fine.

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade          
# apt-get build-dep netrek-client-cow
# apt-get source netrek-client-cow 
# dpkg-buildpackage -b

dpkg-deb: building package `netrek-client-cow' in 
`../netrek-client-cow_3.2.0-2_i386.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges -b
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code


Ditto for hoary.
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade          
# apt-get install debhelper cdbs libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libgmp3-dev 
libxt-dev   
(* horay too old so auto-deps don't work)
(* slight hacking on the control file to get versioning)
# apt-get source netrek-client-cow 
# dpkg-buildpackage -b

dpkg-deb: building package `netrek-client-cow' in 
`../netrek-client-cow_3.2.0-2_i386.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges -b
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code

See http://wiki.us.netrek.org/netrek-dev/Building/Compiling_HOWTOs for more 
details.

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