[OSM-dev] building mapnik & tirex - missing dependency information

[Peter Körner]

I tried to install mapnik (0.7.1) and tirex (svn head) on a debian lenny 
(5.0) and can't get the tirex deb's to build. I'm collecting the exact 
commands for a howto so I'm interested in the "right" way of solving this.
To build mapnik I installed:

	sudo aptitude install \
		libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
		libboost-regex-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-python-dev \
		python pkg-config libpq5 libgdal1-1.5.0 libcurl3 \
		libfreetype6-dev libltdl3-dev libtiff4-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev \
		python-cairo-dev libcairomm-1.0-dev libcairo2-dev

to build tirex' deb's I installed

	sudo aptitude install \
		devscripts libipc-sharelite-perl libjson-perl libgd-gd2-perl libwww-perl

my first question is - do I really need the complete devscripts package? 
It installs crazy things like exim4, at or xulrunner that I don't think 
tirex really needs. But nevertheless I can't get tirex to compile - it's 
missing dependency information:

	dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for 
/usr/local/lib/libmapnik.so.0.7

So I tried with mapnik (0.6.1) and oooh - it's again missing dependency 
information:

	dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for 
/usr/local/lib/libmapnik.so.0.6

So what did I miss?
Peter