apt-build is an apt-get frontend for compiling software optimised for your architecture. It uses the sources of Debian packages available in official repositories.
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This release can use FTP, -b has been added to the defaut build command, --patch works, and there is some code cleanup and bugfixes. It can use gcc-3.1.x.