I got through my other errors with help from responses from the prior thread -- thanks;)
Now, I don't know if make dies because of a missing header file i.e. incorrect gcc directory includes or something else. i couldn't find freecdbmake.h in the source tree however there is a libvpopmail-dev package installed where it should be able to find the header. where does debian keep header files for installed libraries? I could replace #include <file> with #include "/path/2/freecdbmake.hfile" to get it to compile or change the gcc dir line but I don't know how to do that. Or, is there a specific parameter I can pass to debuild to get make to behave properly based on the make errors? Current execution is: dpkg-source -x *.dsc cd vpopmail-5.2.1/debian && chmod 754 fixrpath /* this is so libtool doesn't die on a perm error */ then cd .. && debuild -rfakeroot and get ... /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -I. -Icdb -g -O2 -Wall -c vauth.c rm -f .libs/vauth.lo gcc -I. -Icdb -g -O2 -Wall -c vauth.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/vauth.lo vauth.c:40: freecdbmake.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [vauth.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/data/home/jcunningham/vpoprebuild/vpopmail-5.2.1' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/home/jcunningham/vpoprebuild/vpopmail-5.2.1' make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/home/jcunningham/vpoprebuild/vpopmail-5.2.1' make: *** [build-arch-stamp] Error 2 debuild: fatal error at line 456: dpkg-buildpackage failed! thanks, justin