Re: creating a debian package that doesn't require compiling...

[Jeremy Higgs <jhiggs@iprsystems.com>]

Ok, thanks to some help from Colin Watson and Toni Mueller, I've 
stripped some lines out of the rules file, but I get an error!:

debian:~/rcf-5.0.1/rcf-5.0.1# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is rcf
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 5.0.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Jeremy Higgs <jhiggs@iprsystems.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is i386
 fakeroot 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
debian/rules:10: *** missing separator.  Stop.

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this is the contents of my debian/rules file:

debian:~/rcf-5.0.1/rcf-5.0.1# less debian/rules
#!/usr/bin/make -f
# This is the debhelper compatability version to use.
export DH_COMPAT=2

build:

# nothing to do here

clean:
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean

install: build
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
dh_installdirs

install -m644 firewall.conf debian/rcf/etc/
install rc.firewall debian/rcf/etc/
tar xf firewall-modules.tar -C debian/rcf/etc/

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I cannot see anything wrong...?? but I still get a 'missing separator' error!

any ideas?

thankyou.