First, download the latest tarball, and save it in a folder named "tarballs". We then want to check out an svn directory (in the same folder the contains the tarballs folder).
Run
$svn co http://svn.cc.gatech.edu/fastlab/mlpack/conf/packages/mlpack/trunk mlpack
Now make sure you have svn-buildpackage installed, along with all the other mlpack dependencies.
There is a bug in the packaging, in that the default make target does not build the documentation, but the package tries to install it anyway, causing the package to fail to build. I also found that the 1.08 version test suite fails, also halting the build, so I disabled it.
To fix these things, enter the mlpack directory you just checked out and edit debian/rules . At the bottom of the file, modify it so it looks like
%:
dh $@
override_dh_auto_build:
dh_auto_build
dh_auto_build -B -Smakefile -- doc
override_dh_auto_test:
There is a bug in the packaging, in that the default make target does not build the documentation, but the package tries to install it anyway, causing the package to fail to build. I also found that the 1.08 version test suite fails, also halting the build, so I disabled it.
To fix these things, enter the mlpack directory you just checked out and edit debian/rules . At the bottom of the file, modify it so it looks like
%:
dh $@
override_dh_auto_build:
dh_auto_build
dh_auto_build -B -Smakefile -- doc
override_dh_auto_test:
Finally, from the mlpack directory run
$sh debian/build-from-svn.sh
This still might not work... I'll update this later