On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:26:30AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > dpkg-buildpackage only uses fakeroot et al for the clean and binary > targets, not the build target; your binary-src target is depended upon > by your build target, which gets run without fakeroot (before the binary > targets). > > I believe this done specifically as compiling software often doesn't > work too well with fakeroot. > > From inspection, it look like if you simply remove the 'binary-src' > dependency from your build target, dpkg-buildpackage will work happily, > but I haven't tested this.
Just noticed how Ubuntu fixes this: http://patches.ubuntu.com/q/qmail/qmail_1.03-45ubuntu1.patch I think this is an incorrect fix; the rules file shouldn't be invoking fakeroot itself! May be worth pointing this out to them if you fix this. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
