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Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 19:24:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
To: "John L. Males (jlmales AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-help AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-help] Lepton-EDA Compiling Challenges
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Hi John,

On Sat, 2 Oct 2021, John L. Males (jlmales AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> First, despite the instructions that say the source tarball can run
> from ./configure it does not. ./configure does not exist.

it does.  Maybe you downloaded the compressed repository snapshot from 
GitHub instead of the release tarball?

> These two other attempts from Debian source packages, for version
> 1.9.13 and 1.9.16, where of the two Debian source packages 1.9.13
> had much more serious issues in compiling from source.

The `master' branch of the Debian source package does indeed not contain 
the configure script for some reason.  However, Debian source packages are 
intended to be built with dpkg-buildpackage or debuild[0]; maybe this sets 
some configuration parameters which are necessary for a successful build.

Roland


[0] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/build.en.html