On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 03:19:46AM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to package my first set of libs. I am doing this from my > account with fakeroot. The problem is that this way, the process stops > with the following error: > > ldconfig /home/borco/debian-devel/vdk/vdk-0.5/debian/tmp/usr/lib/ > make[2]: ldconfig: Command not found > make[2]: *** [install] Error 127 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/borco/debian-devel/vdk/vdk-0.5/src' > make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/borco/debian-devel/vdk/vdk-0.5' > make: *** [install-stamp] Error 2 > > as the original Makefile runs ldconfig. How can I correct this ? > > If I run this as root, how can I sign the package, as my pgp key was > created for my personal account.
I think you can tell the dpkg programs the name of a setuidroot script or program. I use sudo. It will change to root when it needs to and then change back. Usually, root is only needed when you run the install target of the Makefile.
