debian/README.Debian

   1 wxwidgets for Debian
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   3
   4 The following packages are built from the wxWidgets CVS source.
   5
   6 libwxbase               wxBase runtime shared libraries
   7 libwxbase-dev           extra files and static libs for building wxBase apps
   8 libwxbase-dbg           wxBase libraries built with -g and __WXDEBUG__
   9
  10 libwxgtk                wxGTK runtime shared libraries, including selected
  11                         contrib libs.
  12 libwxgtk-dev            extra files required for building wxGTK apps
  13 libwxgtk-dbg            wxGTK libraries built with -g and __WXDEBUG__
  14
  15 python-wxgtk            Python binding to wxGTK  (from 2.2.3 onward, this
  16                         obsoletes the libwxgtk-python-contrib package as
  17                         all python modules are built into a single monolith)
  18 python-wxversion        The wxversion.py version selector, new to wxPython2.6
  19 python-wxtools          The ancillary tools from the wxPython distribution.
  20
  21 wx-common               common helper files and support applications.
  22 wx-headers              common header files for building wxWidgets apps
  23 wx-doc                  HTML version of the wxWidgets manual
  24 wx-examples             wxWidgets and wxPython demos and samples (source)
  25 wx-i18n                 message catalogs for native language support
  26
  27
  28         Note that static libraries are no longer supplied in these
  29         packages.  Please read, or have understood:
  30         http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
  31         among others before reporting this as a bug.
  32
  33         The following binaries can be built from the source package
  34         with the mingw32 cross compiler, but are not distributed
  35         as a part of the main Debian distribution.
  36
  37         Please do *not* file bug reports for these packages to the
  38         Debian bts.  But do feel free to email me personally if you
  39         find problems and/or have patches to fix them.
  40
  41 libwxmsw-dev            mingw32-cross wxMSW libs.
  42 libwxmsw-dbg            mingw32-cross wxMSW (debug) libs.
  43 wx-headers-msw          extra headers needed for wxMSW.
  44
  45         You can build these extra packages using the binary-cross target
  46         in debian/rules.
  47
  48
  49         It is also possible to build a python-wxgtk-dbg package.
  50         There are some limitations (like this package cannot be installed
  51         concurrently with the release version), but some developers may
  52         find such a thing useful in any case.  It will transparently
  53         replace the release package for installed apps that depend on the
  54         release package, but should NEVER be used when preparing packages
  55         for upload.  This package may be created from the source using the
  56         binary-dbg-py target in debian/rules.  (note that doing this will
  57         also destroy any release build that exists in the same tree, they
  58         cannot coexist there either yet)
  59
  60
  61         Finally, because all of these packages can take quite some time to
  62         build, the source package supports the use of distcc.  The package
  63         builds will automatically parallelise to suit the number of hosts
  64         you have listed in DISTCC_HOSTS.  This will work for both native
  65         and cross builds of the c++ libraries, if you have the relevant
  66         compilers on all your build hosts.
  67         You may override that heuristic by setting the CONCURRENCY_LEVEL
  68         environment variable to the number of jobs you wish make to fork.
  69         That variable is also supported by the kernel-package scripts and
  70         is respected for consistency here.
  71
  72         wxPython builds cannot be parallelised at this stage and will run
  73         serially regardless of your configuration.
  74
  75
  76  -- Ron Lee <ron@debian.org>, Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:40:00 +1030
  77