Some questions about packages in Ubuntu.

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:53 +0100, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> > > 2) I saw that there are sources repositories. If I want to compile,
> > > i.e., the wget package, how can I do that?
> >
> > sudo apt-get build-dep <packagename>
> > apt-get source <packagename>
> > cd <packagename>-<version>
> > fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
> 
> Thank you, but how can I set compiler parameters (optimization flags)?

You can modify the rules file in the debian directory (it's just a
makefile). This is what dpkg-buildpackage calls to build the actual
package.

mike

> 
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