How do I get waf onto Debian testing?

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 06:42:31PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>> Quoting Stefan (metze) Metzmacher (metze at samba.org):
>> > Hi Richard,
>> >
>> > > For various reasons I have installed Debian testing but it seems not
>> > > to have waf.
>> > >
>> > > How do I get waf onto Debian testing so I can build Samba master?
>> >
>> > waf comes from buildtools/wafadmin/ not from the system.
>> >
>> > 'apt-get build-dep samba4' is all you need
>> > 'python and python-dev' are the most inportant packages.
>> Another option is also patiently waiting that we manage to complete
>> the current work in progress that's meant to get a samba package in
>> Debian that will be 4.0.5. We're getting closer and closer, thanks to
>> a great work by Andrew Bartlett and Ico de Decker (which we aim at
>> completing this week during SambaXP).
> I think Richard is trying to build and patch Samba, in which case "apt-get
> build-dep samba4" is indeed the best command to run.
>
> Using a packaged version of waf might work but is probably a bad idea.
> Jelmer

In the end I got it to work, but Jelmer is right about what I was trying to do.

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Richard Sharpe
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