"NotReal"  writes:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 25/09/18 10:14, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>>>> https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/SourcePackage
>>>>
>>>> Download the source pakage and proceed as indicated. It should 'just
>>>> build'
>>>
>>> You need to install the build-dependencies as well. dpkg-buildpackage[1]
>>> will tell you what they are.
>>>
>>>  [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.html
>>>
>>>> You need to be root probly to build stuff
>>>
>>> You don’t need to be root to build Debian packages from source. The only
>>> step that needs a root-like environment is the assembly of build
>>> products into a .deb file, and fakeroot is sufficient for that (and is
>>> what dpkg-buildpackage uses).
>>>
>> I hoped you would step in and provide chapter and verse.
>>
>> Cheers!
>
> As suggested I ran “sudo dpkg-buildpackage”.  My first attempt failed
> because, as you suspected, it was missing the following dependencies

You do not need root here. See above.

> I also haad a group of eight identical errors one of which is shown below.
> These errors were same kind as the ones I received previously using
“make”
>
>
> ____________
>
> readvmf.c:353:7: error: ‘*fd’ is a pointer; did you mean to use ‘->’?
>    i = gzgetc(fd);
>        ^
>        ->
> ___________
>

That’s a bug in sunclock. The Debian package in stretch disabled zlib
support to work around this issue in 2012:

| sunclock (3.57-1) unstable; urgency=low
|
|   [...]
|   * Disable ZLIB, because this causes trouble with zlib 1.2.6.
|
|  -- Roland Rosenfeld   Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:52:35 +0100
Your other post implies you’re not using that but have actually got
source code from some other, hopelessly out-of-date, source.

Get the source code for the distribution you’re using, from that
distribution, using ‘apt-get source sunclock’, and try again.

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