Compiling Under Debian

Fri Oct 17 20:42:47 EDT 2008

And who says the options at install time are necessarily valid?
I've had some of those choices non-functional.
The only way to get a high probability working mirror is to actually look up 
mirrors.html on the website.

Luckily the big sites like kernel.org and mirrors.aarnet and debian.org 
usually work.
Regards, Kerry.

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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: Compiling Under Debian

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Yeah, the sources list is easy enough.  I just liked the original list
I got at installation time where I could pick from valid list
addresses.  You and Chuck gave me a couple solutions.  I saw
kernel.org on there before and that was a likely alternate choice as I
have always had screaming speeds from there when downloading kernel
sources.

Thanks.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:52:14PM -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> Hi, Steve.
> If you want to reconfigure the mirrors that Apt and friends use for
> repositories, you can manually edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and
> just replace the name of the machine with whatever mirror you want.  For
> me, mirrors.kernel.org is a really good site--I will see on a regular
> basis speeds in excess of 10mbits/sec.  This is because at any one given
> time, the machine is not using no where near the bandwidth it is
> provisioned for.  That machine has an 100mbit connection to the outside
> world.
> Bare in mind that all the configuration scripts do in installation is to
> just script and write the sources.list(5) file from whatever mirror the
> user chooses.  So its not that hard to do.  Hope this helps.
> user choose during
>
> --Erik
>
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:42:14 -0700
> > From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Re: Compiling Under Debian
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> > Well I guess I have to go and find another mirror!!! I like
> > easynews.com for its speed but I keep getting '404' errors on these
> > lib dev packages.  I can't even lookup the change logs on
> > libstd-6.4.3.
> >
> > This brings me to another question.  Since I picked the appropriate
> > mirror during installation, I don't know how to pick a new one now
> > that I have a running system.  I've been generally using aptitude with
> > good results up til now but these 404's got me down.  I'll be looking
> > around for a way to reconfigure this thing <sigh>.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:01:28PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > Steve,
> > >
> > > On Debian, the library packages often come in two parts, one part is
> > > sufficient to support precompiled applications, and the other part
> > > containing the necessary headers etc. needed to compile sources. Those
> > > second parts are often not automatically installed along with the 
> > > first
> > > parts. They will end with "-dev" (for development).
> > >
> > > So type "aptcache search <library name>" and you will be shown all the
> > > various packages associated with a given library, then just install 
> > > the
> > > missing "-dev" package, and your compiles will work fine.
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:46:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > > I've got a testing version of Lenny here but can't find the C 
> > > > standard
> > > > headers.  I've installed every imaginable package pertaining to gcc
> > > > and friends but when I go to compile any c programs like espeakup, I
> > > > get not found errors all over the place for simple header files like
> > > > stdio.h, errno.h, and so forth.  I know these to be standard c 
> > > > headers
> > > > but the basic gcc package in debian doesn't seem to have them.  I 
> > > > also
> > > > installed libstd-6-4-3... but still no joy.  What the hell am I
> > > > missing here? I like Debian's package management strategy but I 
> > > > really
> > > > wish they wouldn't split up some critical packages this way.  As far
> > > > as right now is concerned, I cannot compile any c programs.
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