Building Perl 5.6.0 deb
This is on PowerPC. I got perl-5.6_5.6.0-0.2 sources from
http://master.debian.org~/torin/packages/experimental/src
and tried building binaries (Debian FAQ, `6.14 How do I build binary
packages from a source package?').
dpkg-source -x *dsc ## seems fine
cd *0 ## " "
debian/rules build ## " "
debian/rules binary ## fails, tail of the output is as follows:
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/perl-5.6_5.6.0-0.2/perl-5.6-5.6.0'
[ -d debian/tmp ] && rm -rf debian/{tmp,tmp-base,tmp-suid,tmp-doc} 2>/dev/null
install -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN
install -d debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/perl-5.6
install -d debian/tmp/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/
install -d debian/tmp-base/DEBIAN
install -d debian/tmp-base/usr/bin
install -d debian/tmp-base/usr/share/doc/perl-5.6-base
install -d debian/tmp-suid/DEBIAN
install -d debian/tmp-suid/usr/share/doc
install -d debian/tmp-suid/usr/bin
install -d debian/tmp-suid/usr/share/man/man1
ln -s perl-5.6 debian/tmp-suid/usr/share/doc/perl-5.6-suid
install -d /usr/local/src/perl-5.6_5.6.0-0.2/perl-5.6-5.6.0/debian/tmp-suid/usr/lib/perl5/5.6/powerpc-linux/CORE
install -d debian/tmp-lib/DEBIAN
install -d debian/tmp-lib/usr/share/doc
install -d debian/tmp-lib/usr/lib
ln -s perl-5.6-base debian/tmp-lib/usr/share/doc/libperl5.6
ln: debian/tmp-lib/usr/share/doc/libperl5.6: File exists
make: *** [debian/tmp-base/usr/bin/perl-5.6] Error 1
Suggestions?
Temporal salutations,
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John (MacPhail)
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