On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:47:22AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:28:52 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First off, deb-make has been obsolete for years. If you want a modern > > set of package building helpers, use dh-make and debhelper instead. > > Modern!? Well... I've just tested it... First I tried to use it like I > used deb-make: ran dh_make, edited some files in the debian dir, compiled > the source code as I wanted, doing a 'touch build' and, in the end, tried > to run './debian/rules binary', but that didn't work!
Unfortunately, that's effectively zero information. Sorry, nobody can help without real error messages. > So, as a last resourt, I used the good old dpkg-buildpackage, but for > some reason it broke at the part of documentation. I changed the > debian/doc file and ran it again, but for my surprise it started ALL > over again, even from ../configure!!! As far as I remember, with > deb-make that didn't happen!! dpkg-buildpackage has always run clean first. If you don't want that, use -nc. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
