Re: Building KDE and debhelper problems

[David Pashley <david@davidpashley.com>]

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On Thursday 19 September 2002 1:39 pm, Vyacheslav E. Sidin wrote:
> HI All.
> I'm make decision to build KDE debs from CVS myself and at this moment have
> a problems.
>
> The first package need to be compiled/installed is arts.
> I'm do next:
>
> cd arts
> make -f admin/Makefile.common cvs-clean
> make -f admin/Makefile.common cvs
> cvs update
> dpkg-buildpackage
>
> And start compile/build arts package.
> The compiling process seems to me ok and w/o errors.
> In the end of compile/build process I got next error (here is last few
> lines):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------- make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/system/kde/kde3/arts/obj-i386-linux' make[2]: Leaving
> directory `/usr/local/src/system/kde/kde3/arts/obj-i386-linux' make[1]:
> Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/system/kde/kde3/arts/obj-i386-linux'
> dh_install --list-missing
> Unknown option: list-missing
> dh_install: unknown option; aborting
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> wave:/usr/local/src/system/kde/kde3/arts#
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------- So, the problem seems to me with dh_install binary
> (debhelper package) I tried to run dh_install manually and --list-missing
> option is really unsupported.
>
> Can someone suggest to me what to do in this situation ?
> Where is problem ? In kde build scripts ? In debhelper package (may be
> update this from unstable repository) ?
>
> Please help me.
>
> P.S. I'm almost new in Debian, I was used RedHat about 6 years and most of
> application compiled via rpm --rebuild file.rpm or configure && make
> install .
> I'm really like Debian package management system  and would like to
> compile/install applications only using this one.
>
You need a later version of debhelper. The version in sid works fine. I don't 
know about sarge. If you are using woody, you can just remove that option. It 
isn't really needed for building the packages. It is more of a debugging aid.

- -- 
David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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