On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:44:39PM +0200, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > When I build from CVS, with the debian rules files, I always get > problems on in debian/rules lines like: > > cp debian/kbm.init.d debian/kdm/etc/init.d/kdm > > The problem is that the destination directory often do > not exists, and thus the cp fails. Do I need a special kind of cp > to build with the debian/rules file, that creates missing > directories, or what is the answer to this riddle? > I don't know what version of debhelper you have, or how current your CVS is, but, above the line that does the cp'ing there is a call to dh_installdirs. There is a debian/kdm.dirs file that will tell dh_installdirs which dirs to create. So it is taken care of.
If you have an old debhelper, or maybe you CVS is missing debian/kdm.dirs, this probably won't work correctly. Ivan designs/develops the kde CVS stuff under Sid IIRC. Gordon Sadler
