simple-cdd failing to complete | not sure where to look

[Tim Dobson <lists@tdobson.net>]

Hey,

Sorry to bother people but I've been banging my head against the wall trying to fix this all day and haven't got anywhere it seems. 

So the simple-cdd build I'm trying to run is failing. It was working until I made some trivial changes to one of the packages its using. I've tried reverting the changes and rebuilding it again but the problem is prevailing so I'm suspecting something else - I just can't seem to work out *what*. :-/

>From what I can see the key bit is this - it's not building because some folder doesn't exist for some reason.

...
Reading package lists...
cc1: warning: command line option "-nostdinc++" is valid for C++/ObjC++ but not for C
cc1: warning: command line option "-nostdinc++" is valid for C++/ObjC++ but not for C
Generating the complete list of packages to be included in /home/dmc/workingdir/tmp//cd-build/lenny/list...
Running sort_deps to sort packages for i386:
  Generating dependency tree with apt-cache depends...
  Adding standard, required, important and base packages first
  S/R/I/B packages take 0 bytes
  Adding the rest of the requested packages
  Now up to 353615256 bytes
Done: processed/sorted 546 packages, total size 353615256 bytes.
Reading in package information for i386:
  Done: Read details of 546 packages for i386
Starting to lay out packages into CD (650MiB CD) images: 332031 2K-blocks maximum per image
Starting new i386 CD 1 at /home/dmc/workingdir/tmp//cd-build/lenny/CD1
  Adding the required directories
  Generating the image label and volume id
  Adding .disk/base_components
  Adding .disk/cd_type
  Adding udeb/base includes/excludes
ERROR: Unable to read UDEB_EXCLUDE file /home/dmc/workingdir/tmp//debian-cd/data/lenny/i386_netinst_udeb_exclude
  Adding docs to CD1
  Extracting FAQ on CD1
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/dmc/workingdir/tmp//cd-build/lenny/CD1/doc/FAQ/html': No such file or directory
    Failed to start disc 1, error 256
make: *** [image-trees] Error 9
simple-cdd: extra files for simple-cdd
find: `/home/dmc/workingdir/tmp//cd-build/lenny/CD1/pool': No such file or directory
ERROR: missing required packages from profile default:  less
...

Build machine: Debian Lenny, i386

The full build log is here: http://debian.pastebin.com/PBDbBtW2

I've tried to read through as much of the documentation as possible (and have been following pretty flawlessly for a while to be honest) but I seem to have got stuck here. 

Any pointers or suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.

I'm happy to provide more information as requested.

Cheers :)

Tim