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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 18:07, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
> Am 02.06.2010 23:32, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
>> Better still, build a proper Mapnik Debian package which is what I
>> usually do.
>
> Yan you explain in short how to do this? I'm new to the process of
> building packages myself and would like to use this way in my HowTo. I's
> nowhere explaines on the Mapnik-Wiki and it seems not be part of the
> scons.py -- but I don't know scons either.

Frederik probably has a better way, but one way of doing it to just
add unstable as a apt archive and install libmapnik-dev from there
instead of stable.

That'll get you the latest 0.7.1 mapnik, instead of 0.5.1 in stable.

You can also apt-get source libmapnik-dev from unstable to get the
source, including the debian/ directory used to build it. That'll
allow you to build your own from source using Debian's scripts.