Followup-For: Bug #976299 There is also confusion of the build directory used during the i386 build (obj-i686-linux-gnu vs. obj-i386-linux-gnu):
[...] -- Build files have been written to: /build/xalan-1.12/obj-i686-linux-gnu debian/rules override_dh_auto_build-indep make[1]: Entering directory '/build/xalan-1.12' ( cd obj-i386-linux-gnu && /usr/bin/make doc-api) /bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to obj-i386-linux-gnu make[1]: *** [debian/rules:15: override_dh_auto_build-indep] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/xalan-1.12' make: *** [debian/rules:12: build] Error 2 Andreas