Re: dpkg-shlibsdep can't 'chown'
On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 15:41:18 EST "Brian C. White" (bcwhite@verisim.com
) wrote:
> > dpkg-shlibdeps needs to be invoked from the main directory of the
> > sourcepackage OR you need to specify the -T option to tell wherer the
> > substvars file is.
>
> I know. That is not the problem.
>
> Apparently, though, the last reboot I did fixed whatever the problem was.
> Odd.
I had the same problem when running the build from an emacs shell. Dpkg-shlibdeps wants to be ran from a tty registered in /var/run/utmp. Which emacs doesn't as it's (hopefully) not suid root.
It drived me crazy until someone explained that to me.
Phil.
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