What packages do I need?

From Amakha

Bash

Amakha build scripts need bash as default shell (/bin/sh) instead of dash.

sudo unlink /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion

CVS

sudo apt-get install cvs

git

sudo apt-get install git-core

libboost

sudo apt-get install libboost-date-time1.34.1 
sudo apt-get install libboost-filesystem1.34.1 
sudo apt-get install libboost-regex1.34.1

GNU Awk

sudo apt-get install gawk

GNU CC

sudo apt-get install gcc

GNU G++

sudo apt-get install g++

GNU M4

sudo apt-get install m4

GNU Make

sudo apt-get install make

Patch

sudo apt-get install patch

cchache

sudo apt-get install ccache

Perl

sudo apt-get install perl

Python

sudo apt-get install python

Python sqlite

sudo apt-get install python-sqlite

Python pysqlite2

sudo apt-get install python-pysqlite2

Psyco (Python Compiler)

sudo apt-get install python-psyco

Diffstat

sudo apt-get install diffstat

help2man

sudo apt-get install help2man

texi2html

sudo apt-get install texi2html

texinfo

sudo apt-get install texinfo

uboot-mkimage

sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage

build-essential

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Tar

In some new distributions (i.e. Ubuntu 9.04/Ubuntu 9.10) tar package brokes the compilation. A typical error message is:

NOTE: package udev: task do_unpack: started
[...]
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

To solve this problem you can recompile tar with a new patch:

cd /tmp
wget http://packages.amakha.org/tools/tar/1.22/tar-1.22.tar.gz
wget http://packages.amakha.org/tools/tar/1.22/tar_1.22-2.diff.gz
tar zxvf tar-1.22.tar.gz
cd tar-1.22
zcat ../tar_1.22-2.diff.gz | patch -p1
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
sudo make install