HOWTO build from source on 18.04?

Created by: cement-head

Hi,

I'd like to build solaar from source for 18.04, and I'm using Unity 7. When I run the build script I get the following:

$ ./build_deb.sh /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires' warnings.warn(msg) /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires' warnings.warn(msg) /home/andor/Downloads/Solaar-master/po/zh_TW.po:7: nplurals = 1... /home/andor/Downloads/Solaar-master/po/zh_TW.po:203: ...but some messages have 2 plural forms /usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

What am I doing wrong?