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jhess

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Posted - 09 Oct 2006 : 13:50:52

How do I get the source to the X server or other software modified by ADS? How would I go about building it from source?

To get the sources used by ADS, you need to have our apt repository in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb-src ../developers/linux/debian ads

These commands illistrate a way to download the source to the X server shipped by ADS, build it, and install the resulting package. These commands can be run on an ADS system that is running the full Debian distribution.

apt-get update
apt-get source xserver-tinyx-fbdev
apt-get build-dep xserver-tinyx-fbdev
cd xserver-tinyx-fbdev-*
# make any modifications you want to the code here
dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg -i ../xserver-tinyx-fbdev_*.deb

To get the sources to other packages, replace xserver-tinyx-fbdev with the package name.

If you don't know the package name, but want to get the source to a given program or other file on the system, you can use the command "dpkg -S filename" to find the package that contains the file. For example:

% dpkg -S /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
% apt-get source coreutils

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