* Peter p.vittali@tonhof.ch [20080131 22:46]:

Sorry, I forgot to add, that the bacula package I am talking about is the direct download from bacula.org (current release 2.2.8)

Isn't 'apt-get install bacula' an option for you?

Does anybody knows what that means ? I made sure that I have build-essentials, linux-headers , gcc-4.2 , but all this has already been on the dist.

Quoting Debian's bacula debian/control:

Build-Depends: autotools-dev, debhelper (>= 4.2), po-debconf (>= 0.8.2), zlib1g-dev, libreadline5-dev | libreadline-dev, libjconv-dev, libsqlite0-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev, libpq-dev, postgresql-server-dev-8.2, libwrap0-dev, python-dev, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10), libgnome2-dev, libwxgtk2.6-dev, libacl1-dev, libkrb5-dev, libgnomeui-dev, libx11-dev, mtx, bc, libxt-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19), libqt4-dev, libqwt5-qt4-dev Build-Conflicts: python2.2-dev, python2.3, qt3-dev-tools

I found many, many posts concerning this error on Google, but I just can not figure out what it means in my context

I'm not sure why you want to compile bacula on your own at all, but check out 'apt-get source bacula; cd bacula-2.2.8 ; $EDITOR debian/rules' to get an idea how Debian does the compiling job.

regards, -mika-