This has already been fixed, but not yet merged into the master branch: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/314

On Apr 11, 2018, at 9:25 AM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

From: rolfm@dds.nl

"pure-data_INSTALL.txt at master · pure-data_pure-data · GitHub.html"

 says for Debian: install build-essentials.

took me quite some time to find it should be "build-essential"

rolf

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