[Pkg-giraffe-maintainers] Building giraffe / zarafa git on PowerPC

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 02:50:33PM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> What goes wrong? While packaging giraffe / zarafa with dpkg-buildpackage
> it creates most of the makefiles well. Even the ECtools has one, true.
> But there is no Makefile in every ECtools sub-directory. To me its
> strange, because the directories are holding a am and in file.
> 
> Two miner points - theres no function yet for creating a orig.tar.gz
> tarball yet? Found out dpkg-source -b fails. And dpkg-depcheck
> -d ./configure reports some extra build-depends: pkg-config,
> libclucene-dev, libboost-dev or the one with a version.
Could you paste what you're doing and the error given? You should be
able to build it with:

gbp-pull <URL>
git-buildpackage --git-pristine-tar

gbp-pull will set up the necessary branch tracking and git-buildackage
will create the tarball for you.
Cheers,
 -- Guido