options used for compiling binary packages

[geo]

Hello,

I use a binary package (sqwebmail) that works very well. But I need a small modification, so I have to modify the source code. I don't want to get into trouble using wrong options.

But where can I find the options used for the origninal binary of the Debian Woody package?

[Grommet - Space Cadet]

http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/courier.html

email the Maintainer if you cant work it out but im pretty sure the info you want will be somewhere around that page.....

[lacek]

If you have sources in your sources.list, you can fetch the sources used to make a package with this command:

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apt-get source <package>

If will download and unpack the source of the package to the current directory. You can do whatever changes you may see fit, and use

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dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

to build the binary package.
It will be created in the parent directory of the sources.

The source entry in the sources.list file (in the case you don't have any) looks just like the other entries, but begins with 'deb-src' instead of 'deb', like this:

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deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free

(Don't forget to run 'apt-get update' after you modified your sources.list)

[Guest]

source does not mean the options used to compile it.........

[lacek]

But if you download sources via apt-get, it includes the set of configure options used to create the binary package.
How could it possibly generate the same binary package if there were no configure switches? :-)