Looks like your debian/rules is missing some important stuff.
Here's one of mines, have a look at it, it's a tcl/tk script, no compilation.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm on my first package. The upstream people provide just a perl script which
> should go to /usr/bin. I'm reading the instructions of the maintainer's guide
> (/usr/share/doc/maint-guide/) and all the steps and examples are desgned for
> creatinga binary package from a source tarball.
>
> I've tried to configure this file myself, but when i issue the command
> 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' i always get the same error:
>
> dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or
> directory
>
> What am i doing wrong? I guess i have a problem in my rules file. just in
> case i post it here too:
>
> --------------------------------------./debian/rules
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
> # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
> # GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
>
> # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
> #export DH_VERBOSE=1
>
> # This is the debhelper compatability version to use.
> export DH_COMPAT=1
>
> build:
>
> clean:
>
> install:
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
>
> # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
> mkdir -p `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/bin
> /bin/cp `pwd`/esms `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/bin/
>
> # Build architecture-independent files here.
> binary-indep: build install
> # We have nothing to do by default.
>
> # Build architecture-dependent files here.
> binary-arch: build install
>
> binary: binary-indep binary-arch
> .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install
> --------------------------------------------------EOF
>
> thanks--
> Robert Millan Debian GNU user
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>
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#!/usr/bin/make -f
# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
# GNU copyright 2000 by Eric Van Buggenhaut.
# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1
# This is the debhelper compatability version to use.
export DH_COMPAT=2
configure: configure-stamp
configure-stamp:
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to configure the package.
touch configure-stamp
build: configure-stamp build-stamp
build-stamp:
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to compile the package.
#/usr/bin/docbook-to-man debian/s25manager.sgml > s25manager.1
touch build-stamp
clean:
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
dh_clean
install: build
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_installdirs
# Add here commands to install the package into debian/s25manager.
install -d debian/s25manager/usr/bin
install -m755 -o root -g root s25manager
debian/s25manager/usr/bin/s25manager
# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: build install
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
# dh_installdebconf
dh_installdocs
# dh_installexamples
dh_installmenu
# dh_installemacsen
# dh_installpam
# dh_installinit
# dh_installcron
dh_installmanpages
dh_undocumented
dh_installchangelogs
# dh_link
# dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
# You may want to make some executables suid here.
# dh_suidregister
# dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
# dh_shlibdeps
dh_gencontrol
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb
# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch: build install
# We have nothing to do here.
binary: binary-indep binary-arch
.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure
