Anybody knows how to compile and install Ubuntu/Debian source packages on and for Fedora 11 x86_64?

[Patrick Mahan]

Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:24 PM, paul van der meij <phjvdmeij at gmail.com> wrote:
>> look in the Makefile, to me it seems it runs in a bsd environment
>>
>> cheers
>> paul
>>
>> 2009/11/17 Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <space.time.universe at gmail.com>
>>> The source package that I am interested in building and installing for
>>> F11 is here:
>>>
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/karmic/ufsutils
>>>
>>> After extracting the tarball, I could not find any configure script.
>>>
>>>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> There's a Makefile in every sub-directory under the top level source directory.
> 
> When I tried to execute "make" in each subdirectory, it fails.
> 

If it follows the FreeBSD guidelines for ports packages, then you should be able
to do a 'make config' or 'make configure'.  But be warn it will probably be
dependent on BSD make instead of GNU make.

Patrick
Fedora 10 i386 HP Pavilion.