[Radiance-dev] Re: compiling radiance

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Bernd,

This seems like Debian-specific advice.  Is there some way to roll it  
into your distribution other than putting it in the main one?  Where  
would a person look for such advice at radiance-online?

-Greg

> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd at bzed.de>
> Date: December 28, 2008 5:20:11 AM PST
>
> Hi,
>
> as several people asked on how to build Radiance on older Debian  
> variants
> (like Ubuntu...) - would it make sense to add a howto like from the  
> mail below
> (the version number is not up-to-date there, but with some lines on  
> how to
> find the right file it's fine) somewhere on radiance-online, or  
> include it
> into a readme in the source?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
> Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> Nick Doylend wrote:
>>> Hi, I get the following error while compiling the latest Radiance on
>>> Ubuntu 7.10
>>
>> You could just make a backport of the radiance packages from Debian's
>> Lenny/testing or Hardy (or upgrade to Hardy):
>>
>>
>> (not tested, but I hope it works:)
>>
>> ############################
>> sudo apt-get install devscripts fakeroot build-essential
>> sudo apt-get install debhelper libtiff4-dev libx11-dev libglu1- 
>> mesa-dev \
>>                           libxext-dev quilt tcsh docbook-to-man ed  
>> tk8.4
>>
>> dget -x \
>> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/radiance/radiance_3R9 
>> +20080530-4.dsc
>>
>> cd radiance-3R9+20080530
>> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
>> cd ..
>> sudo dpkg -i radiance*.deb
>> #############################
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bernd