Build GTK-gnutella on Debian 3.1 Sarge

I keep writing about Debian 3.1 Sarge which is an outdated release. Yet, Debian Sarge has some historical values. I use Sarge as the minimum base for my Internet computer. Today, I compiled GTK-gnutella on Debian Sarge. For preparation, I installed the following packages:

• gcc
  
• make
  
• zlib1g-dev
  
• libxml2-dev
  
• libgtk2.0-dev

GTK-gnutella depends on GNUtls library for secure communication. I downloaded and compiled libgpg-error, libgcrypt, libtasn and gnutls in the order. They all have the same procedure.

./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
make
make install

Then, I unpacked gtk-gnutella source and configured it.

./Configure

Since I built gnutls statically, I had to modify src/Makefile slightly.

GNUTLS_LDFLAGS = -lgnutls -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error

I started compilation.

make
make install

The resulting executable depends on gtk+ 2.0 and libxml2 externally and works on Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Sid all.