Building wxWidgets 2.9.0 Ubuntu Packages

[Robin Dunn]

Kip Warner wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:14:44 +0100, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> 
>>  I think there is more than one...
> 
> You think? ;)
> 
>>  This could probably be corrected by running "make allmo" manually in
>>  this
>> directory. Although the script should take care of this itself, of
>> course.
> 
> Yes, that fixes the translation problems. The rest remain though.
> 
>>  wxPython is now in another place (relative to wx) in the svn and the
>> Debian files haven't been updated for it yet.
> 
> This all leaves me curious as to how the package maintainers for Ubuntu 
> and Debian actually go about building a new set of packages every couple 
> of weeks for a new release...

They're working from a tarball that includes the wxPython source files 
in the same directory hierarchy it had before the wxPython repository 
was split out.  (I have a script in wxPython that makes the tarball like 
that.)  To make it work from a SVN workspace without making one of these 
tarballs first you'll need to check out the wxPython tree in the top 
level wx tree.

They're also working with the 2.8.x versions, which have had a lot of 
work to keep the debian scripts working.  For the trunk so far all that 
has been done is merging changes from the branch, without any testing so 
it is not surprising that things don't work there yet.

-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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