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Where to start when building log4cxx package, do I need some other packages for bulding this?

I tried with this tutorial but unsuccessful.

If it's possible I would like someone to explain to me whole process of building, installing this log4cxx package. .

I'm assuming that the default version of the package does not fulfil your needs and that you need to either tweak the source or configuration.

Try following these steps:

Get all of the dependencies required to build log4cxx

sudo apt-get build-deps log4cxx

Download the source for the log4cxx package

apt-get source log4cxx

Change directory to source directory

cd log4cxx-0.10.0

Note you may need to tweak this for the version number that came with your system

You should make any changes you require at this point. Note that if you take a copy of the source directory at this point it will be easy to create a patch with your changes later.

If you want to change configure options look in debian/rules for "./configure", this is where configure is called when the debian package is built, add anything you require here. For example, try changing the line to:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-SMTP

This will build the package with SMTP support.

The final step is to rebuild the package:

dpkg-buildpackage -b

The result will be a newly created debian configured for your purposes.

You can install the debian with

sudo dpkg -i ../liblog4cxx10_0.10.0-1.2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Note that your file name may be slightly different here depending on your system architecture and the version of log4cxx you retrieved from the repositories.

I would recommend you also change the packages version number and maintainer in debian/control so that you can differentiate between your package and the default one. Beware that if another package depends on a specific version of log4cxx then your package will no longer satisfy the dependency.

I recommend this question for further information.