On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 09:23:52AM +0000, thyme after thyme wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm not a developer, but I'm trying to build xfce4-screensaver and > suspect I may be missing a development package. > > I've sudo apt-get installed everything on this list: > https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-extras-team/xfce4-screensaver/blob/debian/master/debian/control#L6 There's an automatic way to do this: install the build dependencies: sudo apt-get install build-dep <your-package> [...] > savers/Makefile.am:53: error: library used but 'RANLIB' is undefined > savers/Makefile.am:53: The usual way to define 'RANLIB' is to add > 'AC_PROG_RANLIB' > savers/Makefile.am:53: to 'configure.ac' and run 'autoconf' again. > autoreconf: error: automake failed with exit status: 1 This might be due to package "build-essential" missing (which, I think, would have come with "install build-dep"). But not quite sure about that. I guess build-essential won't be listed as an explicit build dependency. Are you building xfce4-screensaver from the Debian package source, or from upstream? Cheers -- t
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