On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:23:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > Henry House wrote: > > > > Anyway, my question is how do I compile stuff the debian way? You know, > > > so that the packages are all "known" by dpkg. > > > > Try: > > > > apt-get source --build pppoe > > OK did that and here is the error I got: > debian:/etc/apt# apt-get source --build pppoe > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Need to get 104kB of source archives. > Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main rp-pppoe 2.8-0.1 (dsc) [613B] > Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main rp-pppoe 2.8-0.1 (tar) [101kB] > Get:3 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main rp-pppoe 2.8-0.1 (diff) [2418B] > Fetched 104kB in 24s (4228B/s) > dpkg-source: extracting rp-pppoe in rp-pppoe-2.8 > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is rp-pppoe > dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.8-0.1 > dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Daniel Schepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is i386 > debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 > DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 > DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux > dh_testdir > make: dh_testdir: Command not found > make: *** [clean] Error 127 > Build command 'cd rp-pppoe-2.8 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. > E: Child process failed > > What does that mean? How do I fix it? >
Looks like you need the 'debhelper' package. deb:~$ dpkg -S dh_testdir debhelper: /usr/share/man/man1/dh_testdir.1.gz debhelper: /usr/bin/dh_testdir kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke