hi

So, there are these source packages i downloaded, which i want to build with slightly different configure options due to a bug in debian: hfd5-serial and hdf5-openmpi cannot coexist, yet some packages require the serial version of the lib , others require the openmpi.

I downloaded the sources, in order to build them, without the hdf5 thing...

I have already built this from source in Scientific Linux, and i know this can be done without hdf5.

Where do i hack into the debian source tree of a package to remove a configure option...?

./configure ... ... --without-hdf5 ...

What are the source packages that you are talking about?

Hi,

I'm talking about Code-saturne, Code-saturne-bin, Code-saturne-doc, Code-saturne-include and Code-saturne-data and ecs...

These are part of a CFD simulation tool. and these require libraries for manipulating hdf5 meshes ( hierarchical data format ), in the with mpi capability, the mpi libs i have installed are serial ( incompatible with hdf5-openmpi ) which are also required for a lot of packages...

So, I give up of hdf5 mesh manipulation capability in Code-saturne... but to do this, i must rebuild from source w/ different configure options...

Can't you download the source and compile it by hand? It would make it much easier.

http://research.edf.com/research-and...rne-80059.html

sure i can... but building from debianized source ( apt-get source <stuff>, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b ) yelds directly a deb package, and besides, libraries fvm, mei and bft are already present in the repos... already installed them... no need to build them from source, as well as package syrthes.

This is why i wanted to use a debianized source tree...

Oh ok. Well in that case, can't you go through the source tree and use the find command to locate the configure files?

I've built .debs from sources "the debian way" only a couple of times, so I may be wrong, but I think the file you must edit in order to pass custom options to the configure script is the "rules" file (inside the "debian" subdirectory). Take a look at this, specifically, the section 4.4.3 (Customization of rules file), near the bottom of the document, they explain how to do it. According to the document, you should write somewhere in the rules file something like this:

Now, where exactly in the file does this go, is something I'm not sure about (Probably your knowledge of the whole process is fresher than mine at this moment ).

I think that's it within the source directory?

Thx ppl

@odiseo77:

The Debian way, should be called DebianJutsu Do... I will try yr link...

@corp769: I will hack into that file and try to build this...

I have also used OpenFOAM, but it is n00b-k1ll3r... i mean.. it is workable... but takes a lot to build the simulation i want... code-saturne does-nt have so many capabilities, but then again, they wont be needed for this particular scenario...

Thx ppl

No problem!