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Re: DD for Felix package requested



skaller wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 20:30 +1000, skaller wrote:
> 
>> Be useful if this message:
>>
>> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: cannot read control file debian/control: No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> actually said where it was looking :)
> 
> Because if it had I'd have spotted the problem immediately:
> there is no control file, only a control.in, the target
> 'transition' has to be run to patch the Ocaml ABI number in,
> creating the control file .. I did do this manually .. but
> not in the directory where the system was looking, which was
> actually
> 
> ../build-area/felix-1.1.2/
> 
> However I'm still lost, as to when to create 'control'
> since it isn't actually exported to the build area.
> I need it to be (I can't use the correct ABI numbers
> because I'm running CVS ocaml, not the Debian installed
> one, so I have to hack the ABI numbers for testing ..
> or try to do the build in the chroot)

Please svn up. I've corrected the directory structure and added a
control instead of control.in.

Cheers,

Samuel.



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